Bfb/ Inanimate Insanity oneshots

Fan x Lightbulb - cute guy nice face/wrong time wrong place

A/N

oh yeah i love these idiots (affectionate)
i am actually a pretty big fan of this pairing
they're both so silly

anyway, let's get writing!
also, editor didn't really edit this one so look out for literally everything wrong

fan uses he/they pronouns in this :>

!!WARNING!!

This oneshot contains:

Angst (but requested haha)

Transphobia

Mentions of Alcohol/Alcohol Abuse

3rd POV

Life sucks, and Fan knew that all too well.

He'd first experienced how unfair things could be when he was told that he wasn't allowed to play with the boys in the class because he was a 'girl'. Their dad told them they could be anything they wanted, so they told the teacher that. She laughed, and he didn't like that. They went home and told their dad. Pa had told him soon after that life was just like that, and Fan needed to learn to live with it.

It only got worse as they grew up. Middle schoolers didn't take kindly to people who stood aside from Disney Movie stereotypes; something Fan quickly became aware of. Just because they wore glasses and had wider hips than some of the other boys, they were immediately cast aside. He was lucky however, because in that group of outcasts...

He met Test Tube.

Test Tube was a young genius. They were paired up for a science project in eighth grade, and were both happy to find that they didn't have to take up all the work. Test Tube would experiment, Fan would write, and that's just how things progressed. They were dubbed 'the smart kids', and students would flock to them in group activities.

It wasn't until tenth grade that things took a turn. Unexpectedly, their school merged with another, and Fan's much smaller cohort of students were thrust into the spotlight. The new environment of mixed students was... surprisingly bearable in comparison to their old school. It was a breath of fresh air – a much needed one. Tenth grade passed by smoothly, with Fan and Test Tube partnering up for every group project imaginable, and passing with flying colours. Teachers loved them, and students didn't mind them.

Then, eleventh grade arrived.

Exams loomed around the corner, and Fan was thrown into entirely different classes from Test Tube.

He was alone.

For group projects, they were given all the work, and Test Tube seemed to get treated the same way. Semester one trudged by like a man with a broken leg, and Fan found his classes changing again in semester two.

One class.

They finally had one class with Test Tube.

It was like a blessing from above.

The teacher however, wasn't. She would constantly refer to both him and Test Tube with the wrong pronouns, only to rage when they would correct her. Obviously they weren't the only ones, but it was still a hassle. Based on that alone, Fan knew he wasn't gonna get the chance to choose a partner for his group project.

So when the group project for the semester rolled around, Fan and Test Tube prepared for the worst. They studied extra hard, and made sure they knew the content like the back of their hands. Might as well make it easier for themselves.

The dreaded day arrived like a cyclone in summer; expected, but frightening nonetheless.

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"Alright, these'll be your partners for the group project."