Evan meets Jared at the library so they could use the free wifi. Both his friend and his SQUIP give him annoyed looks as he paces the floor. Eventually he stops to look over Jared's shoulder at the computer monitor.
Dear Evan Hansen,
We've been much too out of touch. Things have been crazy, and it sucks how we don't talk that much.
But I should tell you that I think of you each night (3 ) . I rub my nipples and start moaning in delight.
"What would possess you to write that?!" Evan exclaims horrified, glad they had grabbed a private room.
"I'm just trying to tell the truth," Jared snickers, "these are you gay emails, remember?"
This time Jared is the one being glared at by both human and computer. "We were just friends, Jared!" Evan began before shaking his head. "You know what, never mind. Move over, I'll do it."
I've got to tell you, life without you has been hard.
"Hard?" Jared asks sarcastically.
I've got to tell you, life without you has been bad.
"Bad?"
I've got to tell you, life without you has been rough.
"Kinky!"
And that I miss talking about life, among other stuff.
"So specific, that's just the most detailed letter I've ever seen." Jared continues critiquing.
"I really can't understand why you went to him after I told you that I could do these for you." SQUIP-Connor grumbles.
"Shup up would you!" Evan tells it, though it applied nicely to Jared as well.
I like my parents
"When would anyone ever say that?" Jared points out.
I love my parents, but each day's another fight. If I stopped smoking drugs then maybe things might be alright.
"Smoking drugs? That is pathetic," Jared says with false pity.
"Then just fix it!" Evan throws his hands up and lets Jared have the seat back.
If I stopped smoking crack
"Crack!" Evan cries exasperated and aghast. "Jared!"
"Fine," Jared relents.
If I stopped smoking pot then everything might alright. I'll take your advice, to try to be more nice! I'll turn it around, wait and see!
Because all that it takes is a little reinvention. It's easy to change if you give it your attention.
All you've got to do, is just believe you can be who you want to be.
Sincerely,
Me
"Okay, we wrote the damn email. Are we finished now?" Jared groans.
"I can't just give them one email, this won't prove we were actually friends. And I'm not paying you twenty dollars for just one email." Evan argues.
"Oh my God, fine!"
Evan rolls his eyes. "Just write down what I say. Dear Connor Murphy, Yes I also miss our talks. Stop doing drugs, just try to take deep breaths or go on walks."
"God, no."
"I'm sending pictures of the most amazing trees."
"You've got a tree kink don't you?" Jared wiggles his eyebrows but Evan ignores him.
"You'll be obsessed with all my forest expertise."
"I can't believe you of all people have a weird sex kink for trees." Jared continues.
"It's not a kink! And it's definitely not a sex kink!" Evan snaps, face going red. "Dude I'm proud of you, just keep pushing through. You're turning around I can see! All that it takes is a little reinvention. It'll be easy to change if you give it your attention. All you have to do, is just believe you can be whoever you want to be. Sincerely, Me."
He looks over Jared's shoulder again and sees the added line of 'P.S. Your sister's hot!'. "Jared!"
"You said you didn't want to come off gay." Jared un-seriously protests.
"Delete it!"
Jared seems to give up for the most part of trying to make the emails overly outrageous and they fall into a rhyme of writing one email after another. Evan can see SQUIP-Connor in his peripheral looking increasingly irritable as the rare cooperation from Jared continues.
Dear Evan Hansen,
Thanks for every note that you send.
Dear Connor Murphy,
I'm just glad to be your friend.
Our friendship goes beyond your average kind of bond. But not because we're gay! Just in the most heterosexual platonic way! The only man that I love is my dad.
Well anyway, you're getting better every day (really getting better every day). Just keep getting better every day!
Remember all that it takes is a little reinvention, it's easy to change when you give it your attention. All you need to do, is just believe you can be who you want to be.
Sincerely (miss you dearly)
"I thought you were trying to make this not gay," Jared drawls.
Sincerely,
Me
"Perfect! These are perfect!" Evan says, looking back over them one last time.
"They'd better be, because I'm not redoing any of them and this was totally worth more of my time than twenty bucks."
Evan sighs at Jared's antics. "Whatever, Jared. Just… thank you for doing this."
Jared rolls his eyes, gets out of the chair, stretches, and leaves, letting the door close on Evan without a single word of goodbye.
AN:: So although this chapter might almost be 900 words, most of it's the song. I kind of cheated on this chapter.
Anyway, you know how people either leave the song in or try to edit it to sound "natural" (best example, the book). Well it sounds weird when you take the rhythm and rhyme out of it (because we all sing it in our head), so I edited the lyrics just to keep from straight up repeating but you could still sing it to the song without awkwardness. Do you like it any better?
Also, I made a mock up of the emails: post/186961154626/mock-up-of-sincerely-me-emails-i-made (go follow us on Tumblr)