AN: Hey all, quick note here, I'm hoping to do a collection of one shots, all from Wade's POV, some from episodes and some from just ideas I've got rolling around in my head! Please read and review!

Pilot: 1x01

Wade learns very early on in life, that it's easier to meet people's expectations than exceed them.

He lives his life a certain way and there's been no surprises, things are pretty simple and he appreciates that.

Sometimes, when he's being a bit nostalgic and self sabotaging, he wonders how life would be different if his Momma didn't die, if Earl never started hitting the bottle and if Jesse never left him alone in this backwater town.

He always stops that train of thought quickly because Wade has accepted what he's got in life and what kind of person he is, and there is no point on dwelling on things he can't change.

Laziness has never been Wade's problem, responsibility has never been something he shied away from but most kids were responsible for doing well in high school and on their SAT's not for taking care of their alcoholic father and working two jobs, because said father had been fired from his when Wade was fifteen.

Girls would whisper about him, simultaneously warning their girlfriends not to get involved with the likes of him while throwing their own winks and giggles. Wade was the type of guy to get out your system and never tell your friends about the experience.

Which is what brings him to playing guitar hero with Rachel and Rebecca, a little buzzed and thoroughly enjoying the company when Zoe Hart literally came storming into his life.

Two days later she's drunk as a skunk and sitting in his lap tugging at his collar. This is something he's also familiar with, drunken indulgences that turn into sober regrets, and he's none too surprised when the doctor is stumbling out of his car uttering vague mumbled threats and he responds with the now very familiar phrase, "My lips are sealed."

After all he's used to all this, and he has no plans to go proving anything to anyone. Especially big city doctors with high-heels, short shorts and an attitude problem.

He doesn't plan their second kiss either. But you know what they say about plans, Wade Kinsella never put much stock by those anyways.