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non-royal au where simon and wille are regular teenagers who become friends at university. their group regularly goes to a neighborhood pub's open mic nights, where simon will occasionally perform original songs and covers. one night he asks wille to record his set, in case he wants to upload some of it to youtube or instagram. afterwards, as he's sitting back down at their table to the usual raucous applause, one of the newer additions to their friend circle teases wille that he'd looked like an eager rock star's girlfriend, moving around the room with his phone to get simon's best angles. wille snorts. "i wish," he says. "i'm just a groupie he'll never notice." they all laugh and move on, but later that night, alone in his room, simon watches back the videos wille took. like an actual grandfather, wille had filmed the whole thing on front-facing camera, so while it captures how great simon had sounded, it only shows wille's face as he's watching simon perform. simon laughs about it at first, but then he notices wille's expression. it staggers him, the way wille is looking at him. he's not sure anyone's ever looked at him like that, like he hung the stars.

he hesitates, and then he swipes out of the video and sends wille a text.

what did you mean when you said 'i wish'?