to the bottom of seb’s heart, he loved nini. she was one of the main reasons seb had even decided to join a majority of the music programs he was involved in today—that being mostly theatre and choir in the ninth grade, just like the rest of the friend group. before he’d actually gotten the chance to join them all, he’d admired nini and her dedication to the programs she was in, immensely—after all, she nearly always had a positive aura about her and her outlook was crazy positive all of the time. she just had this way of making seb feel accepted and herd whenever he was in her presence, like when she was one of the only upperclassmen who took the time to talk to him at the beginning of the year, too (before she realized he was actually pretty cool and therefore convinced the whole group to let him tag along to their group, which then brought in gina and carlos, too, and it just made everything…bigger. fuller. happier.).
over the course of the show so far this year, he and nini have gotten pretty close! it hasn’t been too long and they’re only a bit of time into the show, but they’ve been bonding over how much their roles hate each other in the show, and about how hard some of the ensemble choreo was. carlos was crazy sometimes, seb swore.
in a flurry of excitement on a regular—well, mostly—fall day, seb just couldn’t help but excitedly tell nini the news of what had happened to him. after all, carlos asked him to homecoming, and he couldn’t just keep it to himself! he had to tell somebody! and considering the only person he really knew well, and knew would care—aside from carlos, obviously—was nini. he just had to spill everything.
quickly wrapping his arms around nini’s small body, seb soon pulls away to look directly at her. he has this huge grin plastered on his face, and he can’t really help the flush that’s consumed his otherwise pasty skin on his cheeks. it’s kind of embarrassing, in a really good way, he supposes. “thank you!” he says quickly, but soon gets overwhelmed at all of her questions. “i think we’re just meeting here? and i have suits at home! i’m so nervous—i’m so nervous! i’ve…never really been to a dance like this before, and especially never with a boy, and i don’t know how it’ll go in front of all of the kids who aren’t in theatre and stuff, but…but i’m so excited, too! i—“ seb rambles, nearly unaware of how fast he’s speaking until he finally looks directly at nini, because it looks like she’s finding it a bit hard to keep up.
he can’t help it, though!
“sorry. i’m just…this is kind of a lot.”
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Nini beamed as Seb spoke rapid-fire at her. He was so excited and he deserved every second of it. When he stopped for air, Nini put her hands on Seb’s shoulders: “Seb, you beautiful soul, don’t ever apologize for being happy.” She hadn’t been able to follow all of what he’d said but she’d gotten the gist and in all honesty, she didn’t need to know exactly what was said. She was here to be supportive of Seb.
That being said, there was one part of his mini-monologue that she had picked up on and needed addressing.
“Seb, it’s gonna go great. Everyone’s nervous for their first real dance. And as for the non-theater kids...” Nini took a breath and looked at Seb in the eye, “That’s going to be fine too. Everyone’s going to be so wrapped up in their own stuff, their own drama, they wont blink twice at you and Carlos being adorable.” She smiled at him again and gave him another hug.
“Seriously though, if you need anything, let me know.” She told him. “I’m here for you, Seb.”
