Thank you for all your suggestions! I have listened to all of them and I must say, I've got the best readers in the world. You actually made me cry while listening to them.
"C'mooooon! We've been waiting for months!" Gogo leaned against Tadashi's back trying to push him through the door.
The gang, already pretty much done with their respective projects, had recuperated from the week's stress and decided to take the weekend off to hangout with each other and Lily, who also only needed one more chapter to finally finish her dissertation.
"Budge!" Fred, right over Gogo, also pushed against Tadashi's surprisingly sturdy back.
Tadashi held on to the edges of the door frame as tightly as he could while three of his four friends pushed and hissed at him to "get in there". Surprisingly, he had a pretty good grip.
"No! I can't do this!" Tadashi hissed harshly back, tightening his hold and knuckles whitening.
Honey Lemon grunted, shoving one of his shoulders, "When have you been this... ugh!", she switched from using her hands to one of her shoulders to push him, "... sturdy?!"
Only hissing and harshly whispering to each other, they did what they could to keep the noise to a minimum but only ended up causing a curious scene and sporadic bursts of hisses to attract whoever else was in the lab's interest.
"This would all be over if Wasabi wasn't such a ninny and helped out!" Gogo grunted, slipping slightly on the floor whilst trying another shove to push her friend.
"No, no. I vowed a week of non-aggression as advised by my Sifu, so you're on your own guys." Wasabi smiled pressing his palms together after briefly pausing for a pose of meditation.
"Thanks, Wasabi." Tadashi grunted, resisting another push from everyone.
The source of Tadashi's fear actually sat peacefully by the ledge on the window in his partition of the lab interacting lightly with his project and waiting for him to return. Considering the time they had spent together and the obvious pent-up frustration, sexually and emotionally, Tadashi had exhibited the past few days after finishing Baymax's development, the gang decided for him that now was the best time he finally asked Lily out on a proper date. Tadashi, on the other hand, thought otherwise.
"I can't do it!" Tadashi gripped the door frame tighter. "I-I mean I want to but I can't- oof!", he grunted, resisting another shove.
"Woman up!", Gogo tried to convince him. "She likes you!"
"And you like her too, right?" Honey Lemon chirped from behind him before giving him another big shove.
"'Course I do." Tadashi faltered a bit. Fred, seeing the chance, cried out a mighty wail of "FOR LOVE AND FOR SCIENCE!" before barreling himself full on to Tadashi's shoulder blades, successfully toppling him, and anybody else leaning on him, down to the floor.
"What the fuck, Fred!" Gogo grunted as she and Honey Lemon were helped up by Wasabi.
"Fred The Man at your service, ladies!" Fred grinned, sitting on Tadashi's back, locking his arms behind him.
"Guh! Fred! Let go!" Tadashi squirmed under his weight.
"Not until you yield!" The two young men scuffled and ended up with an ipromptu wresting match, with Fred taking the upper hand considering Tadashi was reluctant to grab him due to his knowledge of his friend's horrible sense of hygiene. "Ow! Watch where you're pulling!" Tadashi grunted, hair being pulled by his opponent.
"Let go of my foot!"
"Let go of me!"
"What the heck?" Lily stood dumbstruck beside Honey Lemon as they all watched the fruitless wrestling match happening on the floor. She heard a muffled yell from Fred from the outside as she sat in Tadashi's lab and decided to see what was happening, Baymax following suit.
"Tadashi. I have been alerted to the sound of distress." Baymax broke up the fight by carrying Tadashi's assailant off his struggling form and cradling him in his arms. "Tadashi. You have developed a mild irritation in your scalp." Baymax started, "From a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain?"
The group snickered finding the sight of a startled Tadashi cradled by a large marshmallow in the middle of their lab hilarious. Lily found it endearing, though, that Baymax prioritized his creator over his apparent assailant. 'Tadashi did a wonderful job with Baymax.', Lily thought feeling proud.
"Baymax! I'm fine, really. Thank you." Tadashi managed, climbing out of his robot's hold. Hearing a familiar giggle, Tadashi's attention immediately gravitated to Lily as he smiled and automatically lifted his arm for her to fit under.
"Hey.", he said.
"Hey.", she laughed.
"Heyyy." Fred drawled from Tadashi's left, immediately earning him a playful face-shove from his friend and a chuckle.
"You okay there, Fred?" Lily laughed again, making herself comfortable against Tadashi's side. That had been a ritual between them recently. The side-hugging. She couldn't really recall when it started but all Lily knew was that she liked the gesture between them very much and she'd like to think Tadashi thought the same.
After a few pats on Tadashi's back and a bro-fist shared between the previously wrestling friends, everyone suddenly had "something to do" leaving Tadashi, Lily and Baymax alone. The young man breathed, heart beating rapidly. "W-Why don't we go back in the lab for a bit? I've got uhh a few things to pick up." Tadashi said as convincingly as possible.
"Sure." Lily smiled, wriggling out of his hold and grabbed on to Baymax's hand. "C'mon, Baymax, back to your port, you." She said, entering with the squeaking robot and a nervous Tadashi in tow.
It wasn't as if Tadashi didn't want to. He had been thinking about asking her to go out with him since day one. Spending even more time with her just solidified that decision. It was just that fact alone, that they've gone through a lot together and currently have a great thing going on, that scared him. What if he fucks up? He's fucked up tons of things before but this is one of the very few things he couldn't ever ever afford to fuck up. Seeing Lily smile and walk around Baymax in front of him, with the morning sunlight from the large window bouncing against her skin, Tadashi wistfully sighed. 'I won't fuck up.', he thought to himself as he took a step towards them with a little bit more confidence in himself.
"Tadashi. My scan indicates a rapid increase in your heart rate." Baymax suddenly said, shattering whatever bubble of confidence Tadashi built around himself during the past second. "I-I uhh..." Tadashi babbled with wide eyes. "Your cortisol levels are also rising at an alarming rate indicating anxiety." Baymax walked over to him, "Treatments to anxiety may include theraputical massa-"
"IAMSATIFIEDWITHMYCARE!" Tadashi said rapidly waving his hands around, hoping Baymax understood the statement.
True enough, the robot returned to his dock and deflated, fully deactivating, making Tadashi breathe a relieved sigh. "You okay?" Lily stood in front of him, giving him an uneasy smile. She had spent enough time with Tadashi to know when something's up. Heck, it really didn't take much to tell if something was up with Tadashi, the man was like an open book to everyone, a fact Lily could easily appreciate.
"Yeah, yeah I'm okay." He said unsurely, taking off his cap and running his hand through his hair nervously. Lily smiled at his bashful state, eyes following how his hair tickled his long digits and remembering the times when she had the privilege to play with them. "Wanna sit down? You look like you need to get something off your chest." She said, motioning to the purple pillow by her ledge.
With her project almost out of the way, it gave her more time to thing about things. About the fact that her dad could possibly remarry, her final presentation and, most of all, Tadashi. What they had was precious to her, she thought, leading said young man by the hand to her favorite ledge in his lab. Lily hadn't been in a proper relationship ever since high school for good reason. It distracted her and nobody really asked to go out with her since then, anyway, so she just let it slip her mind as the years passed. Looking at Tadashi now, all flustered and, according to Baymax, anxious, all Lily could think about was the fantasy of always being by this man's side for as long as she could possibly exist. Smiling at her own funny thought, she shifted her attention to her partner who was still just as red as a tomato.
"Hey.", she said, lightly tugging on a longer patch of hair by his ear to get his attention. "You definitely need a hair cut.", she teased her tone gradually turning serious, "What's up, Tadashi?"
Tadashi's pulse was beating through his eyes, for Christ's sake. He could see the world blur and clear after every pump he felt his heart make as he sat on that ledge with both the bane and light of his existence, as extreme as that sounded. He hadn't dated in a while. Not since high school, anyway. It wasn't as if he wasn't interested and neither was it the lack of girls to fawn over but it just didn't "click" with any of them, Tadashi thought, stealing a shy glance at Lily who was softly tracing the embroidered letters on his cap that he handed to her. Neither of them were perfect, Tadashi thought as he recalled past arguments, but despite that, he just knew, deep inside, that it'd work. One way or another, with Lily there with him, it'd work.
"I like you." Tadashi breathed, watching Lily's fingers still. Reaching for her hand and squeezing it tightly, Tadashi motioned for her to look at him. "I like you." He repeated more firmly. Lily's eyes sparkled.
"I mean, ah god." he grumbled, rubbing his free hand against his face. Feeling Tadashi shy away from her, Lily returned the squeeze as strongly as she could. "Go on.", she replied in a whisper, a few strands of hair escaping her loose bun. Heart beating fast, Tadashi looked back at her and stared. Lily flushed red under his gaze, but she didn't back down. "Go on. Please." She pleaded, holding his hand tighter and closer to her.
"I like you, Lily.", he said the third time. "Not just as my consultant, not just as my friend, not just as that weird girl who decided to nest in a fourth of my lab and thought a scary-ass-looking robot would make a good thank you gift but as something... more." he finished lamely, not really knowing what else to say. But to Lily, Tadashi's look said everything.
Feeling Lily's hand leave his, he felt his heart nearly stop. But before his eyes could show what he felt, a body barreled on to him a second time again that day, embracing him. Only this time, it didn't hurt as much.
"I like you, too!", he heard her say, muffled by his shirt. Pulling back enough to look at him in the eye, Lily smiled. She smiled wider than Tadashi had ever seen her smile. "I like you, too, Tadashi Hamada. I really really like you."
Breaking the silence with a stifled laugh, the pair grinned, hearts definitely lighter than they have been for the past few months. In a bout of adrenaline, Tadashi did the one thing he'd been wanting to do ever since she gave him her first smile. He kissed her. And to the new couple, well, it felt pretty damn good.
I'm sorry if it's too cheesy. I'm not very good at these types of things. Needed the song suggestions to get me in the mood whilst writing these. The selected song will be featured in future chapters too, don't worry.