Too Smart to Love - RockyxZuma

What is love?

Set in Rocky's perspective— also, all of Zuma's 'R's are converted into 'W's because of his speech impediment; it's not a typo

~ a year before the present~

I was sitting in the lookout with the rest of the pups during one of those slow days. One of those days when the people of Adventure Bay seem to just not get into any trouble. One of those days when our help isn't really needed.

Rubble and Zuma were switching channels on the TV, waiting for Apollo to start, Skye was searching for a toy to use to play outside with Marshall and Chase, and I was reading a book on aerodynamics for one of the projects I'm planning on working on

"I hate days like these" I hear Zuma say

"What do you mean?" Asked Marshall

"Well, we'we not needed for anything. That's bowing" he complained

"I don't think it's really that bad that we don't get any rescues from time to time. I mean, it's great that we get to help people around here, but sometimes it's great to get a break from all that" Marshall replied

"I personally don't have any problem with not getting any rescues. It gives me time to work on all the projects I want to finish" I said, smiling at the thought of all the possibilities to do on a slow day

At that moment Ryder walked in while Zuma gave me a 'I really don't get you sometimes' kind of look

"Hey, pups. I'm going to Katie's. I wouldn't assume any of you would like to come along, do you?" He said with his normal confident smile

"I'd like to, but Apollo is gonna be on in a few minutes, so I think I'll stay" said Rubble, looking enthusiastically at the TV

"Great! Well, see you later, pups! I'll call you if we get any missions" Said Ryder, heading towards the entrance of the lookout

"Wait a second," said Skye, sensing something was up. "What's up with that smile?" She asked grinning, practically knowing the answer

As soon as Ryder saw Skye's grin, I was stranged to see he began blushing a mad shade of red

"W-What do you mean?" He asked nervously. I don't think I had ever seen Ryder act to strangely. Now this caught my attention

"Don't play dumb with me. You have a crush on her, don't you?"

"W-What? Why would you think that?"

"Oh, please! I see that smile in your face every time you talk about her"

I carefully observed Ryder's strange behavior. He was sweating, tense, blushing, and the weirdest thing considering his obvious nervousness, he was smiling shyly

"Okay... I might have a thing for her..." he said as he continued blushing. In fact, he could barely make eye contact. He just kept staring at the floor

"I knew it! You're in love with Katie!" She said with her tail wagging

"Love?! What is love?!" I accidentally blurted out my thoughts

And then the wirdest thing of all happened... everyone just stared at me with a very confused expression, jaws dropped

"You don't know what love is?!" They said in unison

Now I was the one blushing. I'm usually the one who knows everything, except for Ryder, but now I'm the one who has no idea about something that will need to be explained to me

"So this is how the others feel when I talk about the engineering of my inventions" I thought as everyone kept looking at me with skepticism

"You really have no idea what love is?" Asked Rubble

"Great, even Rubble knows more about this than I do"  I thought while still uncomfortable of everyone staring at me

"Well... I do know love as how you feel towards your family and relatives... you know, because they took care of you" I said while not trying to sound like an idiot in front of the people who know me as an intellectual pup

"Yeah, love is much more than just that. Sure, you can love your family and all, but we're talking about a different and more complicated kind of love... here, let me explain it to you" said marshall before giving me a long yet confusing talk about loving someone who's not your relative

~Back to the present~

Well that was the first time I heard about love. And to this day...

I still don't get it

Hey, everyone! This is my first story on wattpad, so I hope you liked it. This chapter was kind of short, but it was only to test the main idea of the story and know how you liked it so far, but future chapters will be longer

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