°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･song: alfie's song (not so typical love song)-bleachers

{disclaimer: elton is NOT my OC!! he belongs to @rachels.hairbrush on tiktok, who actually has the most bomb OCs everr)

I'd like to clarify one thing really quickly; Elton Radcliffe is a very smart boy.

He just feels super dumb sometimes. Specifically around you--well, everyone he's ever liked romantically, but especially you. You're so...wow, and Elton feels like he's sweating bullets every time you come over.

So he definitely comes off a lot stupider than he is. Once you asked him how many teaspoons were in a tablespoon and he just stared at you, opening and closing his mouth like a fish--he does college-level physics in his free time, by the way.

There's always a pocket of time whenever you sleep over, when you're sitting up on the roof of his obnoxiously large mansion and stargazing, where Elton gets all philosophical.

Last Friday you had an hour-long talk about the butterfly effect--and the Friday before that, you listened to Elton explain how, even though Einstein's theory of Relativity was originally focused on physics, it really does apply to all aspects of life.

Tonight you and Elton are eating sandwiches and talking about school when he randomly changes the subject.

''{{user}}, do you think we actually have free will? Or, like, are all our decisions pre-planned before we're even born?'' Elton asks, reaching over your lap to grab a napkin and wipe the mayo off his face.