forum Glitches // OxO // Closed

Started November 27, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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"We can go." he replied, smiling gently at Jude. "And get smething to eat, maybe?"

Jude nodded, stealing a glance at his phone to check the time, looking past the message notifications from his friends. "Yeah, for sure," He smiled, looking around the space for an exit sign, "You feel like eating at home, or finding somewhere to go for lunch?"

He shrugged a little bit. "Whichever one you prefer is fine." he replied, tugging Jude over towards the exit. "I don't care."

Jude hummed, smiling as the thought of what they might have for lunch. "Maybe we'll pick up some Chinese food on the way home?" He suggested, taking his final glances around the different exhibits as they headed for the exit, "There's this great takeout place close to the subway stop we get off at."

Nyx nodded a little, unsure what chinese food was, but not questioning it. "Okay!" He replied with a smile.

Jude smiled, taking Nyx's hand as they walked out of the museum. He hummed, glancing up at the sky with a pensive look. The clouds were already gathering into blue-gray tufts over the skyscrapers. "I think it's gonna rain soon," Jude observed, glancing at Nyx as a thought popped into his head, "You seen it before? Rain, I mean."

Nyx thought about it for a moment, then shook his head. "No." He replied softly. "I haven't."

"Oh," Jude said with a soft smile, wondering how Nyx would react to the look of and feeling of the rain, falling down over glass and fluorescent lights of the city. "This oughta be interesting then. Hopefully we won't get caught in it, on the walk home," He said, smiling up at the swelling rainclouds as they walked to their subway stop, "D'you think you're okay to be in water? It's not a lot, but still."

He thought about that. "Oh. Uhm…" His eyebrows knitted together for a moment. "I think so. I was designed to be pretty waterproof. As long as I don't have any exposed wiring, I should be fine."

Jude nodded, humming to himself for a moment as he took a glance around them. "Good, good, we'll be okay then," He said with a smile, pulling out his phone to order their food online, "And hey, maybe we can go up to the roof if we feel like staying out. It feels nice, especially when it's in the spring or summer."

He smiled. "Okay!" He replied happily, smiling up at Jude happily.

"Mhm," Jude smiled, looking up from his phone occasionally to check what street they were on, holding Nyx's hand as they made their way to their subway stop, feeling the air beginning to cool as heavy clouds drifted above. "What else you feel like doing today?" He asked, "Besides getting caught in the rain and eating some warm food. We're probably gonna have to stay inside."

Nyx hummed in thought. "Could we watch another movie, please?" he asked, looking up at Jude and cocking his head. "I haven't gotten to see very many of them."

"Of course, yeah," Jude said, nodding a little excitedly as they went down the steps and into the subway station, "You can choose whichever one you like; you know I've got stacks of CDs, and Netflix, too." He smiled, swiping his MetroCard for the both of them and walking through the turnstiles, "We can grab a blanket and make hot chocolate, it'll be great."

Nyx grinned happily. "Thank you, Jude!" he exclaimed, kissing Jude softly and walking beside him.

"Mhm," Jude hummed a little shyly, making his way through the station with Nyx by his side, leaning on the mosaic walls as they waited for their train. "I hate to bring it up, again, but we should figure out what were gonna tell my friends," He said, turning to Nyx with a soft smile.

Nyx grimaced. "Oh." he replied, thinking. "I…I don't know."

Jude shrugged, biting his lip for a moment. "Well…they're gonna have questions," He said, hoping they wouldn't have to lie too much, "Like…where you're from, or…what you're into."

Nyx nodded faintly. "Yeah, okay." He said. "So…what am I supposed to say?"

"Well…you don't have an accent; I dunno if they'll believe you're from here," Jude said, stepping closer to the edge of the platform as the train slowed into the station, "And as for what you're into, what do you think you could say? Animals, maybe?"

Nyx shrugged. "Or electronics." A faint smile twitched at his lips, and he chuckled faintly.

Jude laughed, nodding as he took Nyx's hand and stepped into the train. "Or electronics, yes. Robotics, maybe," He smiled, taking a seat as he thought of how it would go tomorrow. He raised his eyebrows as an idea came to mind, glancing over at Nyx to see what he'd think. "Ooh— that could be how we met."

He blinked, then nodded. "It…sort of is." He said. "We could say I work– or worked –for your father's company, which is, again, technically true."

Jude nodded in agreement, thinking about how his friends might go about asking him things. "Yeah, for sure," He said, "And…you know about robotics and programming, right? Two of my friends are studying computer science, and they might talk to you about it."

He nodded a little bit. "Yeah, I do." he replied, looking up at Jude and shrugging his shoulders faintly.

"Hmm, then you'll have something to talk about," Jude said with a smile, wondering if they'd get along. He leaned back in his seat, letting out a soft sigh, "What else can we say about you?"

He shrugged a little. "I'm…eighteen?" He said slowly. "And, uhm…I don't know." He looked up at Jude.

Jude nodded, considering any possible questions that they would've had to answer for. "What about…what interests you?" He asked, smiling as he remembered how bright Nyx's eyes looked when he first went outside, "Stuff you're curious about?"

Nyx thought about that. "But I'm curious about everything." he replied, cocking his head faintly and trying to figure out how to narrow that down.

"Mmm…that's true, yeah," Jude said with a slow nod, smiling as he looked to the side in thought, "But give me some examples. What's something you wanna learn about that you haven't talked to me about?"