✨ @oddisms. meme. still accepting! ft. @bruisedconscience and @dxsole god i love ya.
❝Stephen's really, like... Silly, sometimes. I know he's supposed to be the most brilliant scientist in the world and stuff, but he's silly.❞ Virote always found him skulking around his workspace, looking over schematics and blueprints and government contracts for drones. He never went in to interrupt unless it was to bring him something to drink or check in on him. Never to tell him to take a break. Stephen wasn’t much of a break taker, anyway. ❝He loves technology. Robots and stuff. It's because they'll do what they're told, he says. I wonder why he keeps me around, then. I already asked him this and he told me that he only keeps things around if they’re beneficial. Still... I don’t know what my benefit is. We’re fundamentally different, probably to a point that makes us completely incompatible. I’m pretty sure he finds my interests ridiculous. I’d like to think I’m intelligent, but I’m not intelligent in a way that he is. And, sometimes, I wonder if that makes me look bad.❞
Which was funny to think about—Virote usually never gave a shit about looking bad. Deep down, he knew his own worth on the scale of smarts. He was usually the smartest person in the room. You’d be hard pressed to find someone on a similar wavelength. Stephen was beyond that wavelength, however. Didn’t wanna dwell on it too much.
❝Sometimes he gets this little look on his face... When he smiles. It's goofy. And, he gets closer. So close that his mustache tickles me. He kisses really well. I dunno, I—I spend a lot of time around him. I spend a lot of time thinking about him when we’re apart. I don’t know what to call us, though. Probably because I never anticipated getting this close to him. Do you think he likes me, even a little? You know, maybe I’m being too insecure. Anyway! I’m sooooo into him. Like. Super duper ubercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I have the dumbest, most stupid crush on him. I’d love to take him to space with me. To the Moon.❞
❝Jasper is my best friend's father. I seduced him.❞ Somehow. By some miracle of God and being utterly swagless, somehow. ❝I met him through Didi. I mean, like. Didi is my friend, she's great. Anyway, I met him through her. I was sooooooooo into him from the jump, like. Look, I love professors. I love space. I love professors that are into space, 'cause I'm from space. Do you dig?❞ Virote didn’t know shit about chemistry. Took it in high school and then never referred back to it unless forced to during his earlier years in college. Jasper was all about it, though.
His old academic work did a lot of the talking for him. Virote read through a lot of his published papers. Impressed. Didn’t understand a lot of it, but he was still thoroughly impressed. The smoking, the shaggy hair, being taller than a tree, and the essence of being unabashedly French was... Strangely alluring. ❝He's a dweeb. Whenever I look at him for too long, he starts stumbling over his words and his IQ drops by a lot. It's kinda fun to watch. I've never had that kind of power over a man, but I like it! I like fucking with his head. Sometimes, he acts like he’s too shy to touch me. Which is ridiculous, right? Like, isn’t the stereotype of French men supposed to be like. You know, like. They’re crazy romantic and not-so-very-shy about it?❞
The first time Virote sat close to Jasper, the poor dude nearly exploded. He also could’ve sworn that he heard a glass breaking across hard flooring and Didi shrieking in the distance ( though, her being emotionally disturbed by her close friend dating her father didn’t deter him too much. ) ❝Jasper always looks so cute when he's in his little library, reading stuff about, um. Chemicals and whatever. What do chemists read about? Baking soda and acid, right? I'm glad I made my move. I'm really in it for a long-term commitment. Didi might throw up when we eventually move in together and make ourselves a cozy little life, but I'm willing to sacrifice her lunch for the sake of me finding someone to love. I really like Jasper. I always have. But, hey, I was too shy to say anything. I’m not shy, anymore. I made my offer, he took it.❞
