Makorra "real world" AU for "3 Sentence AU' Prompts
Word Count: 248 words
Rating: K
She's been watching him for the last two weeks: he gets on the bus three stops after she does and takes his seat as close to the front as he can; he doesn't make small talk with whoever may sit next to him, opting for muffled music loud enough to hear two seats over emanating from his earbuds and a finger tucked into a textbook (sometimes economics, sometimes political science, sometimes the biology textbook she recognizes as the same as her section's own) that he'll read for the rest of their ride from their grungy edge of the city to their university.
He's made prolonged eye contact with her a total for four times (three times too many to have not acted, in her opinion), so in the third week of watching, when he climbs on board, headphones in and biology textbook in hand, she switches from her spot to his and watches the sharp stare she's been wanting to explore shift from appraisal to vague interest when she introduces herself, mentions they're in the same section of Biology 101, jokes about their eighty-year-old, hippie professor that gets their own course material confused.
He doesn't say much in response to her banter and she considers the entire effort a complete failure, walking to their shared class in a semi-strained silence, until the next morning rolls around and he boards the bus three stops after she does, earbuds and textbook absent, and sits in the open seat beside her.