Brain versus Brawn - Lias Andersson
Request: Hey I was wondering if you get the chance could you write something fuffy and angsty with my baby Lias Andersson. Maybe something like he's a bit insecure in your relationship, but you literally love him so much. Thank you! 💕
“Hey Sara!” Lias and I were walking through the mall because I needed to buy a nice dress for an upcoming event Lias had asked me to go to when I heard someone calling my name. Turning around I saw a few of the guys from my chemistry lab walking towards me. It was Nate who had called my name and I waved at them as the moved closer.
“Hi Nate, hey Ray, hi Shane. How are you guys?”
“Good, have you started the homework for the lab yet? I’m stumped by question 3.” Shane asked as I felt Lias give my hand a squeeze, it was his was of telling me to take my time. We had worked on this system since we started dating last year.
“I haven’t yet. I’m probably gonna start it tonight.” I quickly introduced them all to Lias and they did the head nod that guys used as a sign of greeting each other.
“If you figure it out can you call me and explain how stupid I am to me. I’m sure it’s a basic principle but I can’t understand what it is asking me to find.” I laugh and shake my head at Shane, he always had problems understanding the way questions are worded but he was fine the rest of the time.
“Yeah, of course.” We chatted a bit more about classes we had together before Nate asked one last question.
“Are you going to the physics major get together on Friday?”
“No I already have plans that night. I actually have to go get something for then but when I start the homework I’ll give you a call.” Saying goodbye I turn around and lean into Lias’s side as we move to the store we had come here for. “Thanks for waiting while I talked with them.”
“No problem, do you need to go to that thing they were talking about on Friday? You don’t have to come to my event.”
“No, the head of the department just likes to offer an event once a month for all the physics majors to hang out and chat. The last two things it has just been a bunch of guys playing fortnight and drinking beer, they aren’t mandatory and they happen all the time.”
“I don’t want to keep you from something you want to go to.”
“I want to spend time with you, you are kind of one of my favorite people. Besides, we can bring boyfriends and girlfriends so maybe you can come to one if your schedule is free.” Lias gave me a smile but it didn’t reach his eyes. I wanted to question it but I knew he would just shut down if I started something right now. After a year of dating Lias I knew the confrontation with him was always better suited for a private time. The rest of the time we spent at the mall I was preoccupied with trying to figure out what was bothering Lias.
“Babe, you look amazing in this one.” I had just stepped out in the fourth dress I tried on, a floor length ruby red dress with a deep v and it hugged all of my curves. Looking in the mirror I could tell it made my ass look amazing. “If you don’t choose this one, I’m burning whatever dress you do pick and then buying you this one.”
“Fuck Sara, your ass in this dress is absolutely amazing.”
“Okay, this is the one. This isn’t too over the top for this thing right?”
“No, they are having us wear tuxedos for this. So I say this dress is perfect.”
“Alright, I’m gonna go change back into my clothes and then we can head back to the apartment. I need to start on my homework.” Once I was back in my jeans and shirt, we bought the dress and headed home. Once we got there I dived into homework, calling Shane to explain the answer as Lias moped next to me. Normally he would be playing video games as I did homework on the sofa but this time he was just laying with his head on my lap. Once I hung up with Shane I ran my fingers through Lias’s hair, waiting for the right time to start the conversation that could get messy.
“Lias, what’s bothering you?”
“What are you talking about? Nothing is bothering me.” He wouldn’t look me in the eye as he answered me.
“You have been quiet since I saw my classmates. I know you, you never keep things to yourself. Or should I bring up World Juniors from last year where you threw your silver medal into the crowd?”
“Don’t ‘Sara’ me, just tell me what is bothering you.”
“Does it bother you that I am not going to college? And that I might never get a college degree?”
“Why would that bother me?”
“Because I’ll never be able to have intelligent conversations with me like you did with those guys tonight. I don’t understand chemistry or physics, even if it were in Swedish. Those get-togethers with other people in your field, I’ll just embarrass you if I ever have time to come to one. I’m not smart like you.”
“I don’t understand why that would bother me, when we hang out with your teammates I don’t understand half of the stuff you guys talk about. And your teammates don’t make fun of me when I stay stupid stuff about hockey because that isn’t my thing, just like math and science aren’t your thing.”
“But I’m not as smart as you.”
“And I can’t skate to save my life let alone play in a hockey game. You seem completely okay with dating me when I am not a hockey player, so why does it bother you that I might be smarter than you?”
“Because you could do so much better than me, those guys at the mall wouldn’t be gone all the time to play hockey.”
“Yeah, but those guys were also asses who for the first two month of college wouldn’t speak to me as their equal because I am a girl. Our advisor had to tell them to get their head out of their asses because they were almost failing classes and I was getting near perfect grades. When I first met you and told you what I was going to school for you were all excited and asked a million questions about what I was learning and not why a girl is studying to be a scientist.”
“Who cares if you are a girl?”
“And that is one of many reasons I love you and want to be with you and not some idiot guy. You are my favorite idiot guy.”
“I’ll take that. I love you too, my genius girlfriend.”
