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Now Harris had come across a particularly funny trend, he'd done this to Zane, Wyatt, Luca (a baby picture), his boyfriend, and even to Ilya who oddly did not have an awkward stage at all.
He expected that Shane won't have one until he accidentally overheard the rookies talk about the weird thing on Shane's nose, thinking it was a weird mole or an odd freckle, until Shane mentioned that it was a healed up nose piercing hole. It just dimpled when it healed.
Now never in a million years he'd expect Shane to have a nose piercing and never in a million years he'd expect Shane to be pierced.
Like out of all the people he can imagine, Shane would probably be the anti-piercing and anti-tattoo group of people.
So when Harris had to come ask Ilya, even Ilya didn't know, he just knew Shane had ear piercings... Plural, which was a shock to learn.
"Da. Harris, Shane had ear piercings, back when we were itty-bitty rookies— no. Not rookies, back in 2008? I know he had lot of metal bits in ear." Ilya shrugged while continuing to gossip about what Anya did today that impressed Ilya, which impressed him again because who can fault them.
Anya's a good girl.
Now Harris wants proof of the rumoured, well not rumoured since Ilya can name how many freckles Shane has, so he can probably and accurately recall that Shane had piercings.
But, he might just ask Shane's parents, specifically his Mom, Yuna Hollander.
Also it can't be that bad compared to Nick's neon green buzz-cut in the 2000s, or a photo Wyatt wearing a full on Batman costume in his teens for Comic-Con.
Just harmless pranks, he'll leave out the actual bad photos. No one wants to see their own bad teenage photos.
—
Harris had accidentally hit the motherlode. Since Yuna Hollander still kept collaging and making baby books, into teen books.
Like she had thirteen year old Shane on a skateboard, to seventeen year old Shane still on a skateboard. With a group of friends, well two friends, but still for Shane Hollander that is a lot.
So he chose the least, or actually most embarrassing, since Shane actually had no bad pictures here. Like he had perfect clear skin and the hair was actually good, especially now that 2000s style are back into the cycle. He's oddly stylish, which is odd since Shane's usually never this stylish.
—
So he pulled out his phone and got work.
"Hey Shane!" He calls him out, trying to hide the giddy in his voice as Shane walks over.
"Yeah, Harris? Do you need me for something." Shane asks, all wide eyes and more than willing to help. God this'll be brutal.
"Yeah, can you sign this for me?" He pulls out a clipboard, attached is a printed out photo of Shane.
A sixteen year old Shane with all his piercings in display, sitting on the edge of a skatepark bowl, baggy dark-blue jeans, overgrown hair frosted-tips, tied with a half-bun, with a thrifted DIY-ed Ottawa Centaurs hoodie.
Him giving the photographer a wacky smile with his tongue sticking out.
All his piercings on display. Matching industrials, two helixes, the average earlobe piercings, and a tongue and nose piercing. You can probably smell the RedBull and chocolate Axe bodyspray from this photo.
"Oh no."
Shane immediately deflates, turning absolutely red, which made Ilya come running, curious and was about to ask Harris what's happening, until he saw the photo.
"Shane!! Moya lyubov, you did not tell me you were an emo boy!" Ilya gasps loudly, while Shane covers Ilya's mouth immediately, cheeks still tinted pink as he struggled to deal with the existence of the photo.
But Shane was a bit too late and Ilya's gasps can be heard around the stadium.
"WHAT!?"
"Oh my God, you look like one of those magazine ads in the 2000s!"
"Woaaah, what the heck?!"
"That is way worse than my photo."
"Stop, stop, stop! Do not crowd!" Ilya shouts in between the mixes of gasps and shocked sounds.
"Moya lyubov must sign, then tell us." And the way Shane's looking at Ilya, he's this close to choking his husband.
"Fine!" He gruffed out, taking the pen from Harris and signing his signature in the corner of the photo.
"I think I'm sixteen there, and it was NOT an emo phase, it was a sk8er boi phase. I just don't have my board with me there, since I broke it doing some flip in the bowl. So me and my friends were gonna go buy a new one after that photo." Shane explains, while checking the photo out.
"Also Harris, I had waaaay worse photos on my MySpace account."
"Oh, and sk8er boi is spelled, S-K-8-E-R-B-O-I, and yes Avril Lavigne repopulated the populous of sk8bois but most of them just broke their faces trying do a hard trick before they even learned how to push." Shane huffs, while all of them are just shocked, since they did not expect that.
"Also I listened to Gorillaz or whatever they're playing the boombox playing, I'd just put that on my iPod or burn it on my CD." He added, since he isn't music fan, but he did like listen to whatever's available or popular at the time. His friends were into Gorillaz mostly.
—
And Harris posted that on their TikTok and Instagram account, after the shocking speech Shane spoke. Plus they showed the photo, with the background music to Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi.
And immediately it went trending, as expected, but what Harris didn't expect is that Shane's old friends? Old? Not sure, but they commented.
Elijah @EliJeeez
i got bucket full usbs of our teenage dirtbag era if you guys want it?
Shane @ShaneHollanderOfficial ⤵︎
I know where you live Johnson.
Ottawa Centaurs @OttawaCentaursOfficial ⤵︎
pls and thank you 🥰
Neveah @NeveahNeeves
WHAAAAT???
Ria @RiaRiaRamirez
WAIT??? PassThePuckToHollzy24???
Shane @ShaneHollanderOfficial ⤵︎
IVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU ON TWITTER SINCE 2010
Ria @RiaRiaRamirez ⤵︎⤵︎
WE WERE MUTUALS ON MYSPACE???
@ShaneHollandersDawg
SOMEONE WAS MOOTS WITH SHANE HOLLANDER ON MYSPACE???
Abby @IlyaRozanovsAbs
the way Ilya's eyed popped out in shock at the sight of emo shane
Shane @ShaneHollanderOfficial ⤵︎
I WAS NOT EMO!!
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And Shane oddly decided to address the allegations, the point even Ilya didn't expect.
"Yes I was a sk8erboi! One, my parents made me since they were worried about me getting burnt out with hockey. Two, yes I did have a tongue piercing and nose piercing. It's still not healed since I DIY-ed it, the nose piercing was at a real place. That one healed." Shane stated simple as that while they're doing laps and Harris is taping the practice.
"WHAT!?" Everyone shouted in shock.
"I did not notice moya lyubov!" Ilya says in shock, whixh made Shane turn into a tomato red shade. "Do I need to suck on tongue to see if—" Ilya starts, while Shane just smacks his hand over his husband's mouth.
"Baby, Ilya please. No, not in public." He embarrassedly said to Ilya.
"You do know how dangerous that is Shane." Wyatt pointed out with a wince on his face.
"Yeah, I know, but I did it when I was like cronked on Kool-Aid vodka." He shrugs regretfully. "I didn't remember it until I saw that I got a new piercing."
Those are words no one would expect that'll come out from Shane's mouth, while Ilya's grin keeps on growing.
They thought Ilya was the messy one between the two.
"Can you still put a piercing in?" LaPointe nervously asks.
"Yeah, I can still put all my piercings in, except the nose one. Since I got all my other ones DIY-ed or at Macy's."
And that just made everyone let out a loud sound of wincing, because boy that sounds painful.
"They're in my gym bag. They're my lucky charms. Well one of my lucky charms." Shane says, before showing off quickly his wedding ring.
After a few moments of silence, Shane sighs and puts his hands on hips. "You guys want me to try and put them on?"
"Yes!"
—
"Shhh Harris, film me all you want, I am too excited." Ilya says, all so giddy as he watches Shane sanitize his ears and piercings before putting them in.
"My earlobe piercings go in pretty well, since I still wear jewelry sometimes for photoshoots." Shane hums, as he puts the first piercings in.
Then his industrial curved bar ones, that somehow still fit, then his matching gold helixes, and his tongue piercing that made Ilya giggle in the background.
"Oh myyy..." Ilya giggles in the background, even Harris can't take his eyes off because this is just bizzare.
Shane Hollander, is— looks like that. Actually he hasn't aged a day since 16, except more freckles and less baby fat.
"I will try on the nose piercing, but I'm sure it healed up." Shane sighs, already finding his husband's giddyness adorable.
"How beautiful..." Ilya mutters out loud, while Shane just sighs, because Ilya's just so fascinated.
"Fuuuck! I got it in, I thought it wouldn't work." Shane chuckles, before pretending to tie the upper half of his hair.
And Ilya's just a stone cold statue, well not stone cold, but his still with joy and giggles, literally smiling from ear to ear with delight.
"Oh, Roz... You had a thing for Sk8er Bois?" Zane teases, while he's just still staring at Shane.
"You gotta speak, baby." Shane fondly tells Ilya. "Do I look bad?" He asks, tilting his head and posing awkwardly.
"Ohhh, nooo... You— haha..." Ilya says, struggling to speak English which got everyone in the room laughing.
"Say cheese Shane!" Harris says, ending the video to take a photo of Shane. Ilya behind looking like a literal tomato this time instead of Shane.
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And Harris made the photo into the 'Teenage Dirtbag' trend, Shane's photo then now.
"Harris..." Shane sighs, looking at Harris.
"Moya lyubov that is an amazing photo of you." Ilya quick to defend Harris, or pierced Shane.
"You must always wear piercings, you look very handsome." Ilya adds, following Shane like a dog.
For a second there Harris thought that Ilya had a pair of doggy ears and a wagging tail.