forum The Jock and the Nerd—Soulmates?!?

Started August 11, 2019 by @Rvan group

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Milo looked over to the ride Hunter was talking about. He took a breath. "Um… sure… Let's… let's go." He waited to let Hunter go ahead, nervous about that particular ride.

Hunter began walking, but made sure to put his hood over his head as they walked closer to more people. He didn’t know how his friends would react if they saw him and the nerd walking to go on a ride together. Hunter shook the thought away once they got in line, and Hunter flashed the man his wristband. “Where do you want to sit?” Hunter asked Milo, nodding towards the ride.

Milo kept his head down a bit, not wanting people to notice him walking around with the football player. He showed the man his helper's pass and turned to Hunter. "Um… Maybe there?" He pointed to the middle hoping it would be less scary than the front.

“Alright,” Hunter slipped into the seat and waited for Milo to sit next to him. It was a little tight, but not uncomfortable. Hunter buckled himself in. It didn’t look like anyone he knew was on the ride, so that was a relief.

Milo hesitantly sat in the seat next to Hunter. He buckled himself in, now more nervous about the ride than before. Just 2 hours ago he would have never even dreamed of sitting next to Hunter on a ride. he sighed and closed his eyes for a bit as he felt the ride start.

A smile creeped onto Hunter’s lips when the ride began to sway. Part of him forgot how he was on this ride with Milo, the nerd. The ride began moving faster, almost enough to go completely upside down.
(So do you want to do the cliché thing when the ride gets stuck for like a couple hours and they’re forced to sit there and get to know each other?)

(Of course! XD how will it work on this rid though?)
Milo clamped his hands onto the closest thing he could find, which happened to be Hunter, and he shut his eyes tight. His breath was a bit faster than it should be, he was trying to calm it down, but that wasn't working very well. So maybe he was afraid of these rides, but he could never tell Hunter that.

(I just imagine them hanging upside down, but that wouldn’t really work until one of them faints XD What if they were hanging sideways, like it stopped midway between the top and bottom so they’d be leaning back on the seat? And there could be like a problem in the track or something that causes it to stop)

Hunter was bit surprised at Milo’s reaction. He had been oblivious about Milo’s nervousness until now. “Uh, hey-“ Hunter was jerked forward in his seat, the ride screeching to a halt.

(Sounds good to me!)
Milo was jerked back, keeping his eyes closed. "A-are… is the r-ride over?" He said still clutching onto Hunter for dear life. He felt them being forced back into the seat, and that wouldn't be happening if the ride was done. Hesitantly, he opened his eyes to see that they were stuck halfway up the side.

Hunter stared at Milo for a second, surprised. “I…” For some reason he had to take a moment to remember how to think straight, “It’s okay, we’re okay. Everything is going to be fine,” Hunter quickly reassured Milo, even going so far to awkwardly put an arm over Milo’s shoulders. There were already people on the ground going to get help.

Milo attempted to calm himself down by taking deep breaths, who knows how well it was working though. He slowly leaned into Hunter a bit, not really thinking about what he had done before. This was pretty out of the ordinary for Milo. He never rode on the rides, nonetheless with his past bully.

“We’re going to be fine. Help is probably already on the way,” Hunter said softly. For a moment, it wasn’t just him and the nerd. It was him and Milo, and deep down a feeling sprung up in Hunter’s chest. He shook it away, trying to jut focus on making sure Milo was okay for the time being. “Umm, just tell me about the quiz bowl team or something,” Hunter told Milo, hoping to distract him from their predicament.

Milo nodded, fixing his gaze on the super bright glow still coming from Hunter's chest, letting a butterfly or two into his stomach. "Um… well…" He closed his eyes thinking for a second. "I mean, there's not much to talk about… I mean we only really practice answering questions for tournaments…" His voice was quiet since he was still pretty afraid being on the ride.

“Is our school’s quiz bowl team good? Forgive me, the only sport teams I follow are football and hockey,” Hunter let out a laugh, smiling encouragingly at Milo. If Hunter was being honest with himself, he didn’t mind Milo hugging onto him. For some reason, Hunter’s chest seemed to glow a tad bit brighter at the thought. Thankfully the people around them were too worried about the ride stopping to notice.

Milo laughed a little. "That makes sense… but yeah we're pretty good! We place most of the time. At one championship we got second and the was the first time since… a while I think." He smiled remembering that day, it was still one of his favorite memories. Relaxing a bit, Milo seemed to sink closer to Hunter. He had no idea why he felt like he could do that, but he didn't fully realize what he was doing.

“That’s actually pretty cool,” Hunter pointing out. Though quiz bowl and trivia weren’t his strong suit and he certainly never thought he’d ever like that sort of thing, he had to admit it was cool. “How often do you have tournaments?” Hunter asked, a part of that he didn’t want to admit to was genuinely curious.

"Um… every few weeks if I'm remembering correctly. Sometimes though we have one twice a week. That's usually around championship season." Milo talked about it with so much happiness. It was definitely one of his favorite things. "I could tell you when a tournament is if you want to watch them!" He smiled, most of his worry and nervousness gone.

Maybe it was he was caught up in the moment, or maybe it was because Milo was just so happy, but Hunter’s mouth moved on its own, “When’s the next one?” He was even getting out his phone to mark it down on his calendar. Any thoughts of Lexi were absent from Hunter’s head, maybe that was because Milo’s arms were around him.

"I think… the next one is actually this Friday." Milo was surprised that Hunter was so interested, but he wasn't complaining. As Hunter shifted to put the event on his phone, Milo finally realized what he was doing. He hesitantly let go of Hunter and sat up. "…Sorry…"

Hunter paused for a second when Milo let go of him, about to tell him it was alright, but… Hunter couldn’t possibly say that. He was the school jock, and Milo was a complete nerd. They weren’t supposed to even hang out together, let alone to be okay with their arms wrapped around each other. So Hunter just wordlessly entered in the tournament to his calendar and slipped his phone back into his pocket.
Hunter tugged his hood a bit more over his face when he finally spoke again, “So-“
“Attention, help is on the way. The expected wait time will be a half hour,” A man on the ground called from a speaker phone.
Hunter groaned, “Now that’s just crappy.”

Milo let out a long sigh, the end a little shaky. He held his hands together and he looked at them. He had tensed up again "Um… once we get off… off this ride, can we please not uh, go on any more rides?" Milo asked while looking over at Hunter.

“Yeah, that might be best,” Hunter sighed, closing his eyes. “I guess we’ll be up here for a while.” He turned to face Milo better, saying, “Sorry for dragging you into this.”

"No no, it's okay… it's okay. I…" Milo took a breath. "I'm glad we did it, besides… this," He said referring to the stuck ride, smiling a little.

Hunter mirrored his smile, “Yeah… just our luck, right? Maybe fate can’t handle the thought of us being apart,” He said, gesturing down at his glowing chest. It took him a second to actually realize what he said, and then he was instantly turning red.

Milo's smiled widened and he looked down at his own chest. He had never seen Hunter go red like that before and it surprised him a bit. "Yeah, what luck we have…" he said with a little laugh.