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Felicity hated basketball.
Well, okay, she didn't hate it, but she didn't know anything about it and she didn't care for it as a sport. She also didn't really care too much about sports in general, but she'd make an exception for the Super Bowl. Basketball, on the other hand- she didn't care for it, but her apathy towards the sport was currently being exacerbated by the fact that her stupid boyfriend had dragged her to a basketball game when one his friends had cancelled last-minute.
Off the top of her head, Felicity didn't even know the name of Starling City's basketball team.
"Cooper?" Felicity turned towards her boyfriend, but apparently he couldn't hear her over the noise of the crowd and his absorption in his phone. And he was the one who'd brought her here. Some date this was.
She turned to the left and was met with a view of a seriously impressive chest. Well, to be accurate, not the chest itself, but the clearly old t-shirt covering the chest clung to it quite well. Felicity quickly glanced up from the chest, but that didn't do any good, because her neighbor's face was actually devastatingly attractive. Like, movie-star attractive. Come to think of it, she was pretty sure she'd seen his face somewhere.
Maybe she was actually sitting next to movie star. Obviously not a major one, if he only looked vaguely familiar, but she'd probably seen a movie or two with him in it. That would probably explain it.
"Excuse me?" she said, silently glad her voice came out normal-sounding. The guy turned to face her, and wow, his eyes were really blue. Like, super blue. How was that color even possible?
The guy's face crinkled slightly. "Yeah?" he asked, and Felicity realized she'd just been staring at his face, and felt herself flush.
"Um, I was- I don't know the name of the team," she rushed out. "This city's team. I mean, I also don't know the name of the other team, but I don't know the name of Starling's team. Which is weird, because I've lived here for two years, and I was going to ask my boyfriend-" she gestured to Cooper- "but apparently he didn't hear me, so-"
"The Rockets," he interrupted. "The Starling City Rockets. And we're playing the Coast City Pirates."
"Thank you," Felicity said
"No problem," the guy said with a butterfly-inducing smile, and Felicity turned to look at the court. A few seconds later, she turned back to the guy and said, "Actually, one more question- which ones are the Rockets?"
At half-time, not even the presence of her hot neighbor was enough to keep Felicity's mood up. Despite her best efforts, she really couldn't bring herself to care about the game and Cooper kept on ignoring her in favor of his phone.
He better make this up to me with some fantastic sex tonight, Felicity thought. She looked over at him, his face impossible to read as he stared at his phone, and wondered when exactly their relationship had lost its spark. They'd been together for less than six months, for God's sake- how was it possible for the spark to fade from a relationship that quickly?
A rise in the noise level of the crowd made Felicity glance up to see a couple on the Jumbotron. Well, at least I know what a kiss-cam is, Felicity thought. As various people kissed onscreen, Felicity felt herself smile a bit. Even though kiss-cams had some privacy and comfort issues, it was still a nice thing to see.
Felicity squeaked when the couple on the screen changed to her and Cooper. "Cooper, look!" she exclaimed, poking him in the arm.
"Not now, Felicity," Cooper replied, not even looking up from his phone, and Felicity felt a surge of rage. That's it. We're done.
Through her rage, she could hear the crowd's cheering turn to boos and felt her cheeks flush in humiliation. She turned away, only to see her neighbor looking at her with an expression of concern on his face.
Fuck it, Felicity thought, and leaned over to kiss him, and the whole world kind of slipped away. The only things Felicity could focus on was the slide of his lips against hers, the way his stubble felt on her skin, his hand cupping her face.
When she finally broke away, awareness of the world returned- the sound of the crowd laughing and cheering, the feel of the hard plastic seat below her, the smell of a packed basketball stadium- but that all seemed a bit irrelevant compared to the darkened blue eyes staring into hers or the warmth of the hand still in her hair.
"Felicity. Felicity!" she eventually heard Cooper shout, and with a sigh, turned back to face him. "What the hell was that?"
"Me not wanting to be humiliated in front of an entire basketball stadium full of people," she retorted. "Oh, and consider yourself dumped."
Cooper sputtered. "What- but-"
"Just leave," Felicity snapped. "It's not like you were paying attention to the game anyway."
Cooper glared at her for a second, then pushed himself out of his seat and practically shoved Felicity, then her neighbor, into their seats as he stalked past. Speaking of which…
"So, um, I know I just kissed you in front of everyone here- and probably the internet, once the videos of this go online- but I don't even know your name," Felicity said. "And if you couldn't tell by the way my- ex just shouted it, my name's Felicity."
Her neighbor smiled. "I'm Oliver," he said. "Personally, I think-"
"Wait- Oliver Queen?" Felicity interrupted. When he grimaced slightly, Felicity continued, "That's probably why I thought you were a movie star."
Oliver's face froze in a weird combination of his former grimace and bemusement, and Felicity hurried to explain. "You just look- well, you have a mirror, and you also looked a bit familiar, so I thought you were an actor that I'd seen once or twice. But obviously you're not, because you're Oliver Queen, and- I'm babbling. In front of the son of the CEO of the company I work for. Oh God, I'm probably going to get fired."
"Felicity- firstly, relax," Oliver said, unexpectedly grabbing her hands, which had been flailing around a bit. "You're not going to get fired- at least, not for babbling or kissing me. Secondly, since you're clearly not really enjoying the game too much, do you want to get out of here?" Felicity flushed at the implications of Oliver's second point, which Oliver obviously noticed, because he continued, "I know this great burger place that's a lot quieter and less crowded."
"I could go for a burger," Felicity said with a smile.