#(Varian... bby boy... Pls be nice XD )

[canon-fcdder]

✩ { @gamblealife } ✩

{ ☆ } He’s doing it again... Talking about HER. During the time they’re supposed to be using to work on extracurricular experiments. It hadn’t been easy to convince the science teacher to allow the boys to use his classroom for their after school club. Especially after the latest... ‘incident’ with Varian’s highly-unstable compound meant to instantly clean even the trickiest of beaker stains. Long-story-short, the class had to be completely resupplied with brand new beakers... and extra fire extinguishers had been installed into the room. Still, the man has a bit of a soft spot for the intelligent boy and had (reluctantly) agreed after a particularly heartfelt speech that was borderline pleading... All of this effort, for WHAT?

For their club to turn into the Jenny Is Soooooooo Great club?

Apparently. Because for some reason (that Varian only slightly understands) the other boy can’t keep from mentioning her. Constantly. He’s infatuated with the robot. Completely and utterly infatuated to the point where no one else has a sliver of a chance at breaking through to him... Fists clench tighter as they rest upon the desk, brows lowering further as he feels an all-too-familiar pang in his chest. Varian can feel his heart’s every beat, heavy and aching as he just quietly looks at his science partner. His best friend. His oblivious crush. Sheldon looks so happy... and yet, sorrowful too. A bitter-sweet feeling it is, unrequited love.

To admire someone so much, to notice every little breathtaking, wonderful detail about them— the way he cocks his head slightly when smiling, how those stray hairs bounce with every movement, how lively his voice is when he’s passionate about something... or someone, in this case —all while knowing that they don’t see ANY of your’s. That nothing you do or say will ever draw their attention. Will entice a fluttering in their heart or cause a blush to spread across their face... Like right now. Sheldon is clearly blushing, and it’s all because of some girl who wants nothing to do with him. Varian can feel his own face grow warm...

Although it is less of a blush and more of a flush of frustration. 

‘Sorry, heh... How long have I been talking for?’ That question manages to break through the boy’s sullen thoughts. Sheldon’s other XJ-9-centric words having dulled into white-noise quite some time ago. Eyes widening with surprise, Varian starts slightly at the unexpected acknowledgment— with how Sheldon had been rambling on, Varian hadn’t thought he’d stop until it was time to leave —fists abruptly unclenching so that his palms now rest flat atop the desk. Blinking a few times to clear his head and the sheen of intense thought from his eyes, Varian awkwardly coughs into a closed fist before responding, “Oh, y’know...”

“Only if you consider an hour to be long.” Words are hinted with a bit more snark than he originally anticipated, a classic tell-tale sign that something is bothering him. HAS been bothering him for a while now, to be honest. But until this moment, Varian likes to think that he’s been keeping it hidden well enough... “Technically-” Reaching into his apron, he pulls out a handmade pocket watch and glances down at it, “-fifty-nine minutes and thirty-three seconds, but I’ll just round it up.” Looking back at Sheldon with a light pout, he adds, “You walked in, sat down, and then proceeded to talk about XJ-9 after I asked you-” 

Here’s the part that causes his stomach to churn... “-how your day’s been.” Which had sent the boy into a spiel about how he had bumped into ‘Jenny’ in the halls and how she’d said something super nice to him and WOW isn’t she the greatest and hey, did he know about her new upgrades and- Varian had seen Sheldon today too. They’d had a few classes together, eaten lunch together— like usual —had bumped into each other in the halls (literally), he’d even helped Sheldon pick up all the things that’d tumbled out of his backpack because of that impromptu bump... But apparently, none of THAT stuck with the other boy.

All because XJ-9 had interacted with him for five minutes. { ☆ }