not me, just quietly buried in stones

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Joanie Loves Chachi (TV 1982)

M/M | for candybaroque | 100 words | 2023-03-25 | the lamb | AO3

Mario Mastorelli/Bingo Pierce

Mario Mastorelli, Bingo Pierce

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

So everyone said he was worthless. So everyone said he'd never get anywhere, Mario and Annette, failures forever, each the runt of the litter even though there were only the two.

Mario didn't particularly care. Sure, sometimes it bothered him, but most of the time he was pretty happy to know that he didn't have to worry about finding a nice girl, settling down, keeping his job, the works. He happened to know that a "bachelor" pad was much easier to hold down.

And hey, it wasn't like Bingo would be that much easier to understand than a wily wife.