Theo has French and Sadde has Spanish, woo.

And then lunch of course.

Lunch! Then since it's a Wednesday they've got various clubs and then gym, woo, and then it's the end of the day!

Theo is out the front of the school waiting for Sadde.

"Hi."

"Hey!" says Theo. "Ready to go?"

"Yeah!"

"Cool," he says. "Got anything in particular you want to do, or…?"

"Well, yes, but it's a bit too early for that, so I'll accept suggestions."

He raises an eyebrow. "I was going to suggest games, since it'll only be a couple of hours before we go running, and then I don't know if you want to get back to your place right after or what."

"Let's not decide in advance where I'll be going then. What games?"

"Theeeere are soccer games, racing games, puzzle games, platformers, um. I have quite a lot of games? I was just gonna show you the lot and see if anything caught your attention or something."

"Oh, video games, grand, I haven't actually ever played, sure, you can show me them."

"You– huh?"

"What?"

"Well, for one, you've never played video games? And for two, yeah, I wasn't exactly talking about board games, they're not my favorite."

"Yeah I've never played video games. Nor a whole lot of board games either."

"Welllll, I have quite a few so I can show you– various ones?"

"Sounds good to me!"

"Cool! And in the meantime… Got any interesting hobbies? Oh– the shapeshifting thing, if you know anything else about that you could tell me about it?"

He shrugs. "Not really, the shapeshifting's very frustrating, and it's not really a hobby. As far as hobbies go, I like reading, going on walks, watching movies, talking to people, flirting and making out with them, nerding about stuff..."

"Nerding about stuff sounds possibly fun, if you have particular things to nerd about," says Theo. "Any particular genre of movie or book that you prefer?"

"I like nerding about lots of things! Like math. I like nerding about math. Or physics. Or biology. I just—don't often have anyone to nerd with. As for genres, mmm, I like stuff with good well-built stories and worlds and characters, especially smart ones, but nothing in particular beyond that. How about you?"

"Nerding sounds fun, but I'm not sure if I'm nerd enough about enough topics. For books – I like ones with happy endings, mainly, especially if there's a– thing that they have to overcome."

"...so like ninety percent of them," he laughs.

"Yeah, it's– a bit more precise than that but I'm not sure how to word it, and the happy ending has to be an honestly happy ending, as opposed to something like 'and then he became god and recreated the world in the horrific way it was before, but at least it's not destroyed', because that's… stupid."