maeve ╳ ⋮ MEETING SOMEONE LIKE sen felt like one of those one in a million kind of things. like finding a BLACKHOLE or locating a planet just like EARTH. it had been so 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮, in fact, that maeve had avoided the other for a while after talking her HEAD OFF in front of them for fear of completely just ᴀʟɪᴇɴᴀᴛɪɴɢ whatever relationship they barely shared. despite working in an astrophysics lab, people thought she talked a little too much about the stars. a little ironic, but W H A T E V E R .
despite her initial fears that she had completely weirded sen out, though, maeve quickly found that sen rather liked their conversations. she was so surprised that she was speechless for a bit before inviting them to go stargazing with her. it sounds like a date, but she had quickly made it clear that it wasn’t, okay? unless they wanted it to. or something? whatever. but dating a coworker seemed like a lot of paperwork, so she’d set the stage as friends. that was always a good place to start.
she had told them that they would pick them up && she showed up in her CLUNKING pick up, since she had loaded her good telescope in the back. “ i hope you don’t mind, but i brought sirius, ” she says once she’s parked. no sooner had she finished speaking, a pug poked its head from the back && gave a few raspy barks at sen before disappearing again. “ if you’re scared of dogs, he can stay in the car while we watch the stars. but i promise he barks more than he bites. way more. ” [ 🚀 ]