Best Teen-Rated Meet-Cute Fanfics
The 25 most-loved teen-rated meet-cute fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. A great meet-cute makes the romance feel fated from the first paragraph, and the format's compactness has made it a favorite for one-shots and prompt fills.
Top 25 Teen-Rated Meet-Cute Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with meet-cute and rated Teen And Up.
Slide To Answer
by relenafanel
"What do I do?” Steve appealed into the phone. “I’m freaking out.”There was silence on the other end of the line. It lasted so long that Steve pulled the receiver away from his ear and frowned at it. Pay phones were old. Maybe this one wasn’t working despite the obvious dial tone when he picked u
Like Real People Do
by third_crow
“Could I get a name for the order?” Marlene asked.“Serious,” the man replied. “Like the star,” he clarified, and Remus mentally scratched out 'Serious' and rewrote 'Sirius' in his head.“The… star?” Marlene asked, her pen hovering over the cup as she hesitated.“S-I-R-I-U-S,” Remus said. He stocked cr
Thanks for Thumper, But I Prefer Cheeseburgers
by isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella)
The wolf’s head whipped around so fast, Stiles felt like he was watching The Exorcist. Stiles wondered if he could just stand still enough to make the wolf think he was a tree. A very bright red and jean-clad tree. He doubted it, but one could hope. He knew it was a lost cause when the wolf turned f
Save a Horse, Ride a Captain
by galwednesday
Bucky tapped him on the shoulder, swaying back and forth a little as he waited for the man to turn around. “Hello,” he said, and then promptly forgot what else he was going to say, because this guy was fucking beautiful. “Wow. Good face.”Two of the guy’s friends, a man wearing a suit that fit so wel
this time it's a tweet cute
by Owlwinter
Sapnap: Damn, even I think that is one dry-ass trending descriptionSapnap: How much do you get paid to write those again?George: none. this is an unpaid internship and I hate it here.--Or: in which George is the Twitter Description Man, and Dream is the perpetually-trending Minecraft youtuber he has
Side bitch out of your league
by rohkeutta
“I tried to call Sam,” Captain America says, bewildered. He’s sprinting like Usain Bolt and doesn’t sound even a little out of breath. Fucker. “Who’re you?”“Someone who’s watching you live on TV,” Bucky tells him as the tiny patriotic figure on the screen takes the turns like he instructed. Bucky sh
Covered in Bees
by ScarlettStorm
“Cloud Reccesses Apiary,” says a toneless, deep masculine voice, with zero question in it. Wei Ying doesn’t care, because whoever possesses that voice is probably going to come save him from bees like a fucking hero while wearing like, a suit of armor. That’s what you wear to catch bees, right?“I ha
Know You Better
by rotasha
Clark asks Bruce on a date, not knowing he’s a famous billionaire. Bruce says yes, because this is the first time this has ever happened to him.
Meet Cute (these dorks)
by Mayvn
The instant he turned to dash into the fight, Liu Qingge froze as he saw Not Shen Qingqiu standing coolly over one unconscious thug, guqin in both hands and still in a pose that clearly showed he had, in fact, just bludgeoned someone with the end of his guqin. Not Shen Qingqiu smirked and tilted his
A Lot's Gonna Change
by etymologyplayground
"Are you each other's beards?" Wei Ying guesses, mostly joking.Lan Zhan says, "I don't know what that means."Wen Qing says, "Yes." Then, to Lan Zhan, she says, "It's what we're doing."--What's even better than attending the wedding of someone you hate? Being the bartender at the wedding of someone y
Quack (Stiles Stop Calling It That)
by isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella)
“Stiles, I’m serious, I need a favour.” “That sounds like a trap,” Stiles Stilinski muttered sleepily into both his pillows. “You know,” he continued when the man in his room made no move to leave, “you’d think I’d be used to this. My dad, coming into my room, smacking my ass to get me out of bed, w
Natural
by withered
Derek goes grocery shopping, and somehow walks out with a kid, a pack and a mate.
we're awesome, totally genius
by napricot
At this point, Sam’s scanning the coffeeshop for an exit strategy from this terrible date; maybe he can trip a customer into spilling coffee on one of them, or pretend like he’s seen a friend, something, anything. His eye lands on the white guy sitting at the table behind Mike, directly in Sam’s lin
It Took A Year
by 74days
Bucky watches the hot blond guy on his run every day. And he's quite happy to watch from afar. He's not pining. He's NOT.
Monday In A Cafe (All You Did Was Look My Way)
by RayShippouUchiha
Then Gorgeous, as Bucky abruptly names him in his head, slides a bit further down the counter and reaches for his wallet. He pulls out what Bucky’s pretty sure is a crisp hundred and stuffs it into the tip jar Clint decorated to look like a bulls-eye.And then he turns and looks directly at Bucky.St
be my mirror, my sword and shield
by kybelles
Ash Lynx finds the love of his life on a quiet night after he trips on sidewalk and harshly bumps his face against it when he exits from library.Ash lets out a long-suffering sigh and prepares to take out his phone when he hears a sharp inhale and feels someone approaching him in a hurry. He defensi
The List is a Bad List
by 74days
Bucky Barnes needs to find a suitable person to hire since firing Brock Rumlow - the shortlist that his co-owners have given him is... not ideal. He's completely stumped before he meets the hot blond at the gym who seems to end up on the machine next to him...
Punch Spark
by SapphireTwilight
After wrapping up Ochaco's bacherlorette party, Izuku doesn't have much on his mind. His only mission is to get his drunk friend to her room before preparing for his Best Man duties the following day. Maybe text the number he half-heartedly got, despite knowing the man didn't have it.The 'punch spar
This is my mess, my heart, my life
by SunMonTue
Jake, normally put together, hot as the sun, confident and sexy Jake, is an absolute mess of a human in front of this one guy in his apartment building. Apparently cursed to appear messy and clumsy in front of him. And it's always the same fucking guy much to Jake's growing horror.
College? I Don't Know How to Deal With College?
by Whoopty
A College AU set in the real-ish world. Maka meets and befriends Crona, a lanky awkward person, and helps to navigate them through DWMA, a prestigious college, as Crona tries to come to terms with their past, and with help, maybe they can have a chance at happiness. (Not abandoned, just been busy! T
The Blooming Pot Cafe
by kfnye98
How a cafe in Rexxentrum ends up being the home of several romances.
Found Family
by fantasywishes
Erik is used to being alone—until Christine enters his life and refuses to treat him like anything less than normal.Between quiet moments, chaotic friends, and a growing sense of belonging, Erik begins to realize that maybe… he doesn’t have to hide anymore.And maybe, just maybe, love is something he
Not a Socialite
by FrozenDonkeyWheel
London is full of everything: sights, sounds, history, and people. But for Lydia Martin, on vacation in one of the world's greatest cities, it contains something even better. Someone, specifically. The someone she's been waiting a long time for, and she never even knew it.
[Podfic] "According to Plan" by YellowMustard
by happydaiz_pod (1happydaiz)
“...Mr Teach?” “Mm-hm. Says right here, the substitute that covered your class yesterday was an Ed Teach.” Stede laughs out loud. “You mean to tell me,” he says, “that the substitute’s full, government name was Education Teach?” “Edward, I’d expect,” says Lucius, giving Stede a look ordinarily reser
Hot Stuff
by hexose (three_sixtynine_fructose)
Denki and his band are supposed to be shooting a music video. They're in a park, and there's a heatwave. So instead, Denki asks out this purple-haired guy who's sweating it out in a hoodie, and is determined to know why over ice cream.
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About This List
This list of 25teen-rated Meet-Cute fanfics spans 369,889 total words. Kudos range from 9 on the newest entries to 35,323 on the most established. Nearly all (80%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (25 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Meet-Cute · Alternate Universe - Modern Setting · Fluff · Wrong Number AU · Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés.
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