#phoenix could tell tales of their shopping trips and the search for the worst print ever made

[pollyna]

Bradley is eight the first time his mom buys him a Hawaiian shirt and it's the end of it. By the time he's sixteen uncle Tom and uncle Pete have to buy another closet just for them because they don't leave space for any other type of clothes. It takes them three an entire afternoon to assemble the whole thing and at the end Bradley is tired and his stomach hurts for how much he laughed.

At thirty eight and still wearing awful shirts with even worst pattern Bradley, now Rooster, is going to explain to Maverick that it never really was about the shirts but more the memories they carry. Carole taking him to shopping, the icecream after his first shirt and the two hours long drive where she talked about his dad laughing and not crying for the first time, the time uncle Tom took him to buy a new one after a particularly good essay and proceeded to have a serious discussion about pattern with him and a clearly stoned clerk, when he was wearing his uniform and everyone was looking at him like an alien. He took me to the movies after! We ate so much pop corn I haven't touched another one since then! To not forget all the time Maverick himself took him to buy new ones, all the things they did together while they were trying to find the most perfectly fine patterns or the one year long bet to see whom of them would have found the worst hawaiian shirt ever made in the history of hawaiian shirts. And he says with a lower voice, there's a particular one I'm going to wear the day me and Jake are going to figure it out. I wore that for out first date and I'm going to wear it for our second first date.

#hawaiian shirts=good memories #bradley rooster bradshaw #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #uncle tom and uncle pete #au: they raised him #still the fallout between them but things get better #jake hangman seresin (mentioned) #past hangstar #future!hangstar #phoenix could tell tales of their shopping trips and the search for the worst print ever made #or even the story of why bradley doesn't eat pop corn anymore #uncle & nephew relationship #happy memories #top gun: maverick