Selcouth | Wilbur Soot x OC

Wilbur's House

Saturday Morning, I wake up and look next to me. Emilie was still dead asleep so I got up quietly and walked into her kitchen. Her parents were up in the living room reading some books. I admired the relationship they had. Whenever they looked at each other it was like the first time. "Good morning Gen, feel free to grab something from the pantry." Her mother greeted. I walked over and grabbed some cereal and a banana. I genuinely loved being at Emilie's house almost as much as I loved mine. They were pretty similar vibes but my parents were a bit different. They would have lovey-dovey moments but on the flip side be sarcastic bitches. There was no harm behind it, They joked like they were best friends not only husband and wife. I longed for a relationship like that.

I finished eating and headed back into Emilie's room. She still wasn't awake so I went on my phone until she woke up. "Well look who's awake." She glared and hit me with her pillow. Might I add she's not a morning person at all. I gave her a couple of minutes to fully wake before trying to talk again. "So How was your night?" She asked me with suggestive eyebrows. "We got a little drunk, flirted, and we ALMOST kissed until Addy told us I had to go." She shot up standing on the bed looking flabbergasted. "WHAT?" I shrugged my shoulders. "Yeah, but we weren't sober and It got carried away. We'll go back to school Monday and it will be like nothing happened."

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Monday

I walk into 2nd Block Psychology and there he is sitting in the back. He smiled and raised a hand at me. I smile and nod at him and then sit in my seat. I sit through the entire lesson and take notes. At the end, the teacher announced a project and told us to pick partners as we leave. We started packing up and He and his friends walked up to me. It was kinda strange but I tried to be nice. "Hey, Genevieve, I wanted to introduce you to my friends. This is Jack, Tom, Niki, and George." I introduced myself and then he continued. "They partnered up together and I wanted to know if you wanted to be mine?" his face looked like it was contemplating what he just said and started giggling a bit. "My partner, do you want to be my partner?" His ears started turning a light pink and followed with his face. "Yeah, Of course, let me just give you my number. you text me whenever and we can get started." I had the biggest grin on my face while tying my number into his phone. "Sounds great, See you tomorrow!" He waved and left with his friends to go to his class.

I walked out and Addy and Bryan Walked up to me. "What the hell Gen, why were you talking to the low lives?" I furrowed my brows at Him. "They are nice and it's not like our rep will tarnish from one conversation at school." Addy rolled her eyes at me. "You really want people to start looking down at you and disrespect you?" I halted. "Number one people respect me because I'm kind to people when they talk to me and number two when you guys get your head out of your own ass you will see that they are nice and maybe funny people." They started to storm off. "Whatever, see you later."

I walked into my PE class that I had with Emilie. We sat down and started stretching. "I've had it up to here with Addy." I said while putting my hand in the air. "What did she do today?" I switched legs. "She came up to me and complained about me talking to Wilbur and His geek friends." "Her and her stupid social norms." We stood up and started doing Jumping jacks. "I told her off for it, and Will also invited me to hang sometime." She paused, "That's great! You have a little date!" "How is it a date if we are just hanging out to work on a project?" She furrowed her brows at me "DAMN LET ME DREAM!"

Gym was torture per usual, coach yelling at everyone for almost an hour and me sweating my balls off. Once class is over everyone jogs to the locker rooms to change. I change into my school clothes and then the bell rings to dismiss class. I walk out the gym doors and walk to my last period.

The class went by fast considering I was on my phone the entire time. I walked out the front doors of the school to meet with Emilie because she was going to take me home. I see her and walk up to her. "Hey, you ready?" She nods and starts walking to the door to get in when someone shouts my name. I turned and it was Wilbur. "What's up?" I said to him, He presses on the brakes. "You wanna get a head start on the psych project?"  I look at Emilie and she's shooing me away with her hand. "Sure, why not." I shrug and throw my stuff in."

We drove off and he turned up his music Your Graduation by Modern Baseball. I looked at him and he was jamming his heart out. Shaking his fluffy hair all over the car and doing a fake guitar solo while stopped. Him having the time of his life made me laugh a bit. He turned to me lip-syncing the lyrics. I loosened up doing a small head bop. I didn't even realize how hard I was smiling.

All the songs he played I had never heard of before but they all were pretty good. Very different from what I listen to, still good. We pull up to his house and get out of the car. His house was really pretty. Medium and homey looking. We step inside and I just let my eyes wander observing everything. "I'm gonna go grab some snacks you can just sit here." he said gesturing towards the table. Everything looked like it could be an antique and old.

He comes back holding two cups, juice, and a lot of snacks. I saw him struggling so I got up to help him. "Thanks, I almost dropped it all." "No problem, are you feeding a family of five with all this stuff." He laughed and poured me some juice. "Ready to get started?" "I guess so." We start by doing research looking for how the human brain reacts to certain things based on personal experiences and instinct. Once we gathered solid evidence we took a small break.

"My brain feels like it's going to pop." I said rubbing my temple. "Do you want to play Mario Kart as a break?" "I guess, I've never really played but I can give it a try." He widened his eyes at me "YOU HAVE NEVER PLAYED MARIO KART, c'mon let go." He grabbed my hand and started walking up his steps. He placed me on his bed. "N64 or Switch?" I shrugged my shoulders. "N64 it is then." he turned around to hook up the system. I looked around his room.

It was cluttered with posters of different kinds, Random trinkets that he's probably collected from random places and I noticed a jewelry box. I got up and walked over to it and opened it. I found Rings, crystals, polaroids, and many other things. "You like?" he said as I was holding a ring with a pink gem. He made me jump a little. "Yea, it's really pretty." "It was my grandma's, my grandpa gave it to her on their first date. He got it from those toy machines where you put a quarter in." I was in awe. "That's so sweet." I put the ring down and faced him. I was taken aback by how close he was. "The game?" "Oh yeah, cmon." We sat down and he handed me a controller. The graphics were really bad but that's because of the game's old age. Wilbur went on and on about when the game came out, shortcuts, and every little tidbit you could know about the Mario Kart games.

Time passes and I got really into the game, I almost forgot why I came over. I was hardly on my phone since I got here. Wilbur decided to call it quits on the game and shut it down. We sat crisscrossed on his bed and checked our phones. I had a few texts from Emilie and one from my mom telling me to tell her when I'm on my way home. I looked up from my phone and Will was already looking at me. I felt my face heat up a bit but chose to ignore it. "What do you wanna do now?" It was around 8 pm. "Not sure, we could play a board game or I could take you home." I weighed my options and decided. "I should probably go home since we do have school and I need to get some sleep." He nodded and stood up reaching his hand out towards me. "Well, we better get going then." I took his hand and I didn't notice how they literally engulf mine.

We walked downstairs and I gathered my things. I gave him my address so he could put it in the GPS and we headed off. I couldn't stop thinking about how happy I was. I spent a day with someone who wasn't in my friend group and had one of the best days ever. I looked over and Will was singing and drumming to You Found Me by The Fray. It was pretty adorable might I say.

We pull into my driveway and I thank him for the ride. He drives off and I walk into my house. I opened my messages and texted Emilie. "I had the best day ever." I proceeded to go on and on about it and she seemed so happy. I would text my other friends but they would probably bully me for it so I decided against it.
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