The day of the open house Hiro and his friends were setting up the robotics display in the Main hall. The various majors at the university all had their stations but robotics, being a main focus, was the largest and in Hiro's opinion the most interesting.
"Hiro is this centered?" Wasabi asked from the ladder above.
"Yeah. Looks great." He said not even looking.
"You didn't even look!"
"I'm kinda busy Wasabi!" He said waving his flash cards in the air. He had to give a speech about their department in front of everyone and he was freaking out.
"Give 'em a break Wasabi." Fred said. "He's nervous that he's gonna mess up in front of his girlfriend."
"Still not my girlfriend."
"Well not with that attitude."
Hiro rolled his eyes and flipped to the beginning of his notes.
"You're gonna do fine Hiro." Honey said placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Thanks Honey."
She went to sit behind the desk with their information on it and Hiro continued pacing running his speech in his head. He was surprised that over all of the commotion in the room he could hear the front door open. He looked up and saw a cop step through the door. He was a large Japanese man who looked like he could snap Hiro in half. Well at least they would be safe. He was about to turn around when someone stepped in behind the cop. Her curly hair was down brushing her bare shoulders. A red sundress that poofed out at the bottom stood out against her bronzed skin. She looked around the room hands clutching her bag and Hiro quickly scrambled back to his post.
"Guys! Guys! She's here!" He whispered loudly.
"What?" GoGo asked confused. "But the doors aren't supposed to be open until-"
"Her dad is a cop." Hiro said eyes wide.
"Whoa. What else don't you know about this chick?" Fred asked.
"Airi Tamiko." Baymax said. "5 feet. 110 pounds. O positive. Roughly 16 years of age."
"Baymax shhh." Hiro said. "You can't say things like that out loud!"
"She's coming around that corner." The robot said.
"Everyone look natural." Wasabi said. He scrabbled behind the table next to Honey lemon while Fred grabbed his sign and stood in an awkward pose. GoGo rolled her eyes and stood next to her bike. Hiro stood awkwardly in front of their sign smiling a little to wide to be considered normal. Not a moment later Airi came from behind the architecture station cautiously. She looked around and let out a breath of relief. She walked down the row looking at the exhibits with acute interest. It wasn't until she had gotten halfway to their station that Baymax started to shuffle over to her.
"No. Baymax. Come back." The robot looked over at Hiro blinked and continued walking.
"Hello Airi." He said while she was turned. She jumped her heels clicking when she landed on the floor.
"Oh. Baymax you scared me." She said. "How are you?"
"I am functioning at my highest potential. Thank you for asking. How are you?"
She giggled at the robots words.
"I'm great. Thanks."
"I have come to escort you to the robotics exhibit."
"Oh is Hiro there?"
"Yes." Baymax held out his hand and Airi grabbed it. "This way."
Over at the exhibit, the gang was watching the exchange closely.
"Dude, Baymax has more game than I do." Fred said when Airi grabbed his hand. Now walking directly towards them, Airi smiled at the familiar faces. She waved her free hand. "Hi guys."
"Hey Airi!" They all replied.
"This is a pretty cool set up that you guys have going." She said looking at all the inventions. "Did you guys make all of these."
"Most of them." Honey Lemon said. A few are from some other students.
"That's amazing. I could never do something like this." She said eyeing some of the robots. One of them caught her eye. It was Hiro's old bot fighting robot.
"What does this one do?" she asked picking it up.
"That's mine." Hiro said. "It's a um bot fighting robot."
Her eyes widened. "You bot fight?"
"Not anymore. But yeah. I used to."
He pulled the controller out of his pocket and made the robot move out of her ands and back onto the table.
"Woah." She said in awe as it moved around. "This is way cooler than some of the trash stuff my dad has confiscated."
"Confiscated?"
"Yeah. He's a cop and he hates bot fighting." She stood up straight and put her hands on her hips. "Anyone with that much brains that's wasting it in these circus rings should be arrested for a waste of talent." She said with a deep voice.
"What does he say about your street dancing then." Hiro asked. She shrugged.
"What he doesn't know won't kill 'em."
"Uh speaking of your dad. Is that him?" Wasabi asked. Airi turned and gasped when she saw her father turn around the corner.
"Oh shit. Hide me. Please hide me." She pleaded grabbing Hiro's arm.
"Uh."
"The closet Hiro." Honey Lemon said.
"Oh right!" He lead Airi behind the exhibit to a storage closet and shut the door behind him.
"Oh thank goodness." She said leaning against the wall.
"Why are you running from your dad?"
"Because if he found me he would drag me back over to the biomedical engineering station."
"What's so bad about that?"
"Isn't it obvious. I don't want to be a biomedical engineer. Oh man. I was hoping he wouldn't notice that I'd left."
She was pacing back and forth biting the polish of her nails.
"Well if you didn't want your dad to be over your shoulder the whole time, why did you come?"
"Because...I don't know. I thought it would get him of my back. And guess I just kinda wanted to see you again."
"Oh."
"Yeah. I just made it awkward didn't I."
"No! I mean why do you think that I put that message in you folder. It wasn't a promotional stunt."
"Oh. Well then can I have your number?"
"You want my...yeah of course." She smiled and took out her phone. They exchanged phones and put in their own number before returning them.
"Thanks. Now I don't have to rely on your Airi senses to know when I need saving."
"I don't know. They've been pretty foolproof so far."
"Tell that to my calculus test I took yesterday."
Airi's phone rang and she sighed answering.
"Yes Dad. I'm in the bathroom. Yeah. There was a long line. You go ahead I'll meet you there. Ok. Bye. He says that the presentation starts soon. I have to go."
There was a banging on the door.
"Hiro they're calling you." GoGo's voice said through the wood.
"Coming!" He said. He looked at Airi. "Am I gonna see you after?"
"Probably not. But I'll text you ok."
"Yeah."
The door swung open and GoGo eyed them. "Am I interrupting something." She said with a smirk.
"No. I was just leaving actually. Bye guys! Good luck Hiro!"
She clicked away and GoGo smirked.
"Why do you look so happy?" She said eyeing Hiro.
"Me. I always look happy." He said looking up from his phone. Airi's name was right at the top of his contact list with a little dancer emoji next to it. He hoped she would be able to find his.
Airi scrolled down her contacts to the H's but the only one there was Henry her lab partner. She huffed scrolling until something caught her eye. Under G was a new contact. Genius with the screws and bolts emojis following it. She rolled her eyes smiling and stuffed her phone into her bag.
"Dad!"
XOXOXOXO
PLEASE REVIEW!