Inquiry

Alone.

Always alone.

A genius spends lots of time alone, working on their experiments and calculations. That's how it was when you're busy and smart.

But he hated it.

He hated spending to much time alone. Though he didn't let it show at the same time he did. He would come out of his lab and immediately immerse himself in whatever activity involving others he could find. He would even stoop as low as to play mind rotting video games just so people would watch him.

Watch me.

Watch me do something fun.

Watch me do something fun with you.

Watch me do something fun with you Nova.

Nova. He really loved to spend time with Nova for some reason he didn't quite understand. She was rough and joyful while he was serious almost all the time, yet he felt strangely attracted to the thought of spending time with her. There was no reasoning behind it.

But that wasn't possible. Any scientist knew that facts had to have proof to them.

Suddenly he was spending tons of time in his lab again with his new inquiry.

"Ready Gibson?"

Gibson slammed his log book shut and blushed furiously. "Er...sorry. I was about to set them up. I thought you said you were coming at 3:30."

"Sorry. I guess I beat that level faster than I thought I would. I beat Sprx's high score into the ground too. He was whining like a baby."

Gibson activated the training equipment.. The pillars filled with weapons rose out of the ground and surrounded Nova. Gibson touched the knob on the control panel. "Beginning training in 3, 2, 1." He turned the knob and the weapons all tried to hit the yellow monkey. She avoided them without effort.

"Hey Gibson, give me a challenge here!"

"Right!" Gibson turned the knob up a few levels. The speed and quantity of the weapons increased and continued to assault Nova.

She dodged a laser by a few inches.

She jumped a sword swinging under her feet.

A saw was charging right at her from the backside.

"Nova!"

"Huh?!"

A few seconds later she was several feet away from the weapons, pushed to the floor along with her savior.

Gibson stood up quickly, leaned over to the control panel to shut off the training equiptment, and looked down at the trainee. "Nova! Nova! Are you alright?!"

Nova groaned and slowly got on her knees. "Ow.... thanks for the save."

"You're okay!" Gibson said. His eyes lit up as he grabbed Nova's hand and helped her get on her feet. Her face was a few inches from his and his face was flushed again.

"...you okay Gibson?"

"Er... um..." Gibson put the hand he had helped Nova up with into both of his. "You see Nova, my hypothesis was wrong. In fact, I have no hypothesis anymore to explain what is indeed true."

"What are you-"

He kissed her.

As he did, she had a look of shock on her face greater than any she had ever had before. When he backed away from her, her widened eyes stayed. Gibson's face grew a deeper red and he stared at his feet. They both blinked off their expressions and desperately tried to regain their composure.

"Um, I, er, well," he cleared his throat and spoke quickly, still blushing madly. "Thank you very much for your help in coming to a conclusion in my study. I really appreciate it. I shall now go finish my inquiry. Goodbye!" He bolted out of the room in a matter of seconds.

She almost ran after him, but stopped herself and just smiled in the direction he had ran out from. He was pretty shy and she understood that he probably needed to time to himself after that. While she would have been open to talking right after the matter, Gibson and her were very different. There were next to no similarities between them, and yet...

She really needed to ask Gibson about his findings later, because she didn't get the attraction between two total opposites either.

Yet she knew it was there.