NevillesLeftBall
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Before another wave of despair could wash over me I felt a body rush into the back of me. “Todd! I got the part!” Neil was excited, his smile brightening up this gloomy day. “That’s great” I said with a half smile. I was just happy to see him happy. Neil and I stood in front of Mr. Keating’s door and as each boy walked through he showed off his script and bragged like he was the greatest actor on earth. He will be.
In which, Todd goes through dealing with his feelings for Neil without knowing what he truly thinks of him.
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27 Jan 2026
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Once Neil gets to about page 6 when looking over his play, he feels his eyebrows furrow. Now, obviously since the play was about the Poets as a whole, there wasn’t really a main character. There would be a more prominent character in each given scene, but Neil made sure to avoid making himself the one who narrated and directed the entire story.
But once he was about halfway through rereading what he had so far, he realized that every character more or less revolved around one Poet in particular. Every scene managed to include the character, there were always in-depth descriptions of what he and his facial expressions looked like, and everyone either went to him for help or obviously valued his opinion highly.
Neil had named the character William, and he was realizing now that he had included a surprising amount of descriptions about this character’s blond hair, blue eyes, and unassuming but devout personality.
Oh shit, Neil thinks to himself, I accidentally made Todd the main character.
Or in which it's 1960, the Poets' senior year at Welton, and Neil's writing a secret play, his magnum opus, but there's just one problem: Todd keeps getting in the way.
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01 Dec 2025
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five of todd anderson's first times and how exactly they relate to his life in 1969, after neil perry was sent away to military school and never responded to any of his letters.
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01 Dec 2025
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“Honor candidate Neil Perry.”
Todd’s eyes were drawn to the boy who rose next. Neil Perry. He stood tall, his navy blazer adorned with an array of achievement pins clustered on his breast pocket — each one a gleaming testament to expectation, accomplishment, pressure. But beneath the polished surface, there was something else. Something that caught Todd’s attention and held it. Neil’s stance was dutiful, his posture perfect, but his eyes — his eyes — burned with something sharp and restless. There was a fire there, flickering just beneath the surface, barely contained.
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I’m basically re-writing the book because I re-read it for the hundredth time yesterday and cried for 4 hours straight. I just cannot leave my favourite boys like that. So why not write them a happy ending ? I don’t know what I’m doing but tag along, I promise it will be a happy ending :) Oh and because it’s Todd pdv we have access to to his personal diary…
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- Part 1 of And still we love
Bookmarked by NevillesLeftBall
01 Dec 2025