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ok so basically the Rabies Relationship Saga has three defining canon events, that being:
Frankenstein: The Meeting
place in timeline: October, 2022
the first ever conversation me and @iirexenii ever had was about Frankenstein. we had to read Frankenstein for our GT English class, but we were inexplicably given the graphic novel to read because our teacher is just nice like that. the cover of the graphic novel looked like this:
and I thought it was an alright book cover. now, I had my beloved partner in both GT English and biology (as well as AP human geography but nothing important to our relationship really happened in AP human geography). rexen and I had a friend named Serena that was in our biology class as well (keep Serena's name in mind, she will be very important later). Serena was also in GT English, although she was not in our class. it was through Serena that rexen and I met, and the first ever conversation I had with my soon-to-be partner was this:
Serena: "rexen thinks that Frankenstein's monster is hot!!"
me: "what??"
rexen: *points at his crotch regions*
we then talked during the rest of that biology class and I don't remember at what point this conversation happened, but then this conversation happened:
me: "what do you think of titties"
rexen:
rexen: "y e s"
we then entered the early stages of friendship. for the next five months, we remained only friends. we also ate lunch together every day in our GT English teacher's classroom, along with our other friend Alex. however, GT English teacher's classroom lunches were only on A days (our high school functions on an A day/B day schedule), and so for B days, I sat outside my GT English teacher's door, on the floor, completely alone. at some point, rexen took pity on me and started sitting with me, outside our GT English teacher's door, on the floor. this then lead to:
2. Call of Duty Modern Warfare II: The Budding Best-Friendship
place in timeline: February, 2023
now, I don't know how on earth my partner got into the fandom of call of duty. all I know is that for the entirety that I had known them thus far, they were interested in COD MWII, solely for the fact that the two main characters—named John "Soap" MacTavish and Simon "Ghost" Riley—had sexual tension. I will now just refer to these two as soap and ghost for the sake of conciseness. here is a picture of the aforementioned soap and ghost:
ghost is on the left, soap is on the right. rexen would talk about their ship, soapghost, to anybody that would listen, but nobody would ever listen to them, because they were shipping a Scottish guy named soap and an English guy named ghost together. I was one of these people, up until one day when I was talking about hollow knight. hollow knight is an indie video game featuring a main character that looks like this:
this main character canonically has no name, but the hollow knight fandom has affectionately nicknamed them ghost, because of a throwaway line of dialogue referring to them as "little ghost".
(completely unrelated to my relationship, but hollow knight's sequel game, hollow knight: silksong released literally last week and it's all that I have been thinking about. I have been waiting for it for four years. some people have been waiting for it since 2018. I wholeheartedly recommend it.)
anyway, I was rambling about hollow knight to my partner while we were sitting in front of our GT English teacher's door. they then took my computer and said, "I can show you a better ghost". they then pulled up a picture of Simon "ghost" Riley, and for some reason—because I had never seen a picture of either soap or ghost before this—I became intrigued by the COD men. I then proceeded to go to my geometry class and read COD fanfiction for the entire 90 minutes of that class. I then fell down the rabbit hole of COD fanfiction, and rexen's reaction was essentially: "YEAHHHHH LETS GOOOOOOOO". the call of duty men inexplicably drew us closer, because rexen had nobody to talk to about soapghost besides me. within a month, we had graduated from "friends" to "best friends". this eventually then led to:
3. My Best Friend Of Eight Years Can't Keep A Secret To Save Her Life: The Getting Together
place in timeline: April, 2023
now, remember Serena? she and I have been best friends for the past eight years. I love her to death. so of course I would tell her when I started catching feelings for rexen. now, my crush on rexen was different from my previous crushes, in that I had become jaded by the time I realized I was crushing on them.
(in case you were wondering about my tragic love life before I dated rexen, it's this: crush #1 wanted to be just friends, crush #2 was gay and also he bullied me after he found out I liked him, crush #3 didn't want to date at the time, crush #4 said she was straight, and then crush #3 and crush #4 ended up dating each other, while I liked both of them.)
so you see, I had become thoroughly jaded due to my string of continuous heartbreaks. by the time crush #5 (rexen) rolled around, I had the thought of "I should just get this over with and see if they like me or not". hence why, immediately after figuring out that I had feelings for rexen, I made a plan to confess my feelings to them. I would write them a nice, handwritten note, give it to them after our biology test on April 13th, Thursday, 2023, and see their reaction. then depending on that reaction, I would then either have a partner, or I would have to eat in the bathroom alone for the rest of the school year. Serena fully supported me in this plan. it is important to also note that Serena had many suspicions that we liked each other, because we did the following while being "just friends":
leaned on each others' shoulders and shared earbuds while watching YouTube videos
literally ate lunch together outside our GT English teacher's door
I made a joke about marrying them and they said "yk what sure"
now, on April 11th, Tuesday, 2023, our class was playing a review game called trashketball. the aim of this game is that we would break off into groups, our teacher would put up review questions on the board, we would answer the questions, and if we got it right, we got the chance to go up and throw a paper ball into a trash can to earn points. I, for obvious reasons, grouped up with rexen and Serena.
there was a point where rexen got up to go throw the paper ball into the trash can. as they stood up and walked away, I whispered (or at least I thought I whispered, I have notoriously bad control over my volume) "I want to kiss them so fucking bad"
evidently, Serena misheard me, because she thought I said "I want to fuck them so bad". she then screamed, "TABS WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY????"
now, normally, this would not be a problem. except, my partner is also very nosy, and upon returning to our table, they asked, "what?? what did tabs just say??? I wanna know!!!"
this then prompted both me and Serena to deny that I ever said anything. rexen, unsatisfied with this answer, grabbed Serena and shook her by the shoulders, demanding to know what I had said.
and here is when what I internally refer to as The Fuckening happened.
Serena turned her head, looked towards me, and said, "tabs, I don't think you can wait two more days!"
this then prompted rexen to start shaking Serena more aggressively, and scream, "WHAT?! WHAT CAN'T WAIT TWO MORE DAYS?!"
and it was then I knew that the situation had gotten entirely out of hand. so I did the following:
grabbed rexen by the shoulders
said, "I have a crush on you, you big fucking idiot!!"
rexen then said, "what the fuck???"
we then, overcome by embarrassment, lied our heads down on the lab tables and did not participate in the rest of the game. however, near the end of class, they did ask to hold my hand, which was very nice.
we then departed for lunch, sitting outside our GT English teacher's door. it's important to note that, at this point, I had not actually written my handwritten note. I had typed it out on google keep (google version of notes app). so I did not even have a nice handwritten confession to present to my partner.
also, we were interrupted by both our GT English teacher (she opened her door mid-confession and asked if we wanted to eat lunch in her room. we did not want to eat lunch in her room.) and our GT history teacher (he started very loudly talking with a student while we were talking).
nevertheless, rexen asked to see my note. I showed them my note. at the end of the note, there was a question that asked, "will you be my girlfriend? yes/no"
my future partner then asked me "how do you highlight text on a Chromebook" and I had to show them how to highlight text. they then highlighted the part of text that said "yes".
and I think the rest is history.
and that is the complete story of how rabies got together!! two years and five months and still going strong!!!