Doctor Who One Shots

Matt and Karen ~ First Date

Matt and Karen had been best friends for as long as they could both remember. They met when they were 6 years old in year 1 at primary school. Karen was fresh out of Inverness, Scotland with her freckle speckled skin, strong accent and fire for hair. Of course the other kids picked on her, that was what happened when someone moved to a new school in a different place with different accents and minimal red hair. All the other kids would call her names, point at her and laugh, whisper when she walked past, and turn her away from their dinner tables when she asked to sit with them. That was all of the kids except one, a boy named Matthew Robert Smith. Karen had walked the whole perimeter of the lunch hall and gotten turned away from every single table there was, she was getting ready to walk back out of the door and sit in the toilets to eat when she heard a small voice speak up.

"You can sit with me if you want?" The voice belonged to a small boy with dark brown hair, green eyes and a rather large chin. His uniform was slightly crinkled and covered in grass stains from falling over all the time. He smiled at Karen, it was the first genuine smile she had seen while she was there and it brought her so much comfort. She smiled back at him sheepishly, nodding her head.

"Yes please." The small boy beckoned her over to him and she sat down opposite him, opening up her pink lunchbox. Matt looked at her and gave her another smile which she returned with more confidence than the last.

"My name is Matthew Smith, what's yours?"

"My name's Karen Gillan." Matt smiled again, he liked the way she spoke.

"Karen's a pretty name, but I'm gonna call you Kazza for short."

"Well I'm gonna call you Matt then."

From that moment onwards, the two of them were inseparable; wherever one was, you knew the other wasn't too far behind. They grew up together. Make believe games that lasted for hours turned into days spent on the play station and exploring and building space ships out of lego, which then turned into trips into town and movie nights that ended up as accidental sleepovers. They went through all of their best and worst times together, supporting each other through every single moment and never once second guessing their choice to stick by the other. It was almost inevitable that they would end up developing huge crushes on each other, spending the majority of your life with someone leads you to become quite fond of them. That's exactly what happened to the two of them. They went through Primary school, High School and University together. It took them a while but eventually they accepted their feelings and decided to act upon them.

They were laid on Karen's bed, their legs stretched up the wall as they both had their heads turned so they could look at the other. Matt looked at Karen and was taken back by her beauty. Her long ginger hair was splayed out on the bed behind her, her face free of make up and she was wearing short dungarees with black tights and a stripey top. Matt was sure he had never seen anything as incredible as her, his Kazza. Little did he know, Karen had similar feelings for him. She found his floppy hair and huge chin absolutely adorable, and loved how easily she could get lost in his bright green eyes. He was so handsome she sometimes had trouble remembering he was the scrawny kid that she met all those years ago.

"Karen.." Matt looked into her eyes and smiled at her.

"Yes Matthew." She smiled back at him.

"Would you maybe wanna go on a date with me sometime?" His eyes darted around the room, looking anywhere but her. He instantly regretted asking her when there was no answer for a while. Nice one matt, there goes 17 years of friendship down the drain. Of course she doesn't like you back! Hesitantly he brought his eyes back to her face, expecting to see her face  contorted into disgust. Instead he was met with a big grin and red, blushing cheeks.