Students have quickly learned that once freed from the confines of a lesson plan, Spencer can be asked almost any question and go off on an enthusiastic, informative ramble about the topic, which means it usually takes him an extra full ten minutes to get out of class. Good thing Lydia does all the cleaning up for him. He hadn't been too sure about his success as a professor, despite how blasé he'd been about it before, but with her help, it's gone a lot smoother than he'd expected.
Once he detangles himself from the students, he comes over to gather up his affects and his ever-present messenger bag, pausing briefly at her question.
"Uh... the local approximation of St. Valentine's Day? Nothing." Why would he be doing anything for it? He's both clueless and unsuspecting.
Somehow, in spite of the fact that he has so much potential and he's definitely a catch as far as she's concerned, Spencer still manages to elude the better part of Cadelle, which is that it's a safe space in which people can connect romantically or sexually with one another free of judgement and, from what she can tell, obligation.
Lydia gives a playfully long-suffering sigh and shakes her head. "Spence. You can't do nothing for it," she counters, starting to move toward the door slowly so that he'll follow her. "There's a match-making service. I'm going to do it. You should do it, too," she tells him.
Hell, she's got half a mind to sign him up, anyway, because she thinks he'd really enjoy himself if he let himself loosen up and get to know people. Nobody says that the match maker has to be a romantic date, anyway; he could use it to meet a new person that an algorithm thinks would be a good match for him. He might meet his new best friend, for all he knows, if he gives it a shot. "You can't blow off your first official Cadelle holiday. That's just an affront to the culture of our new temporary home," she points out, but she keeps her tone and expression light so that he knows that she's half-joking.
He eludes them on purpose. He's happy and comfortable in his little academic bubble. If there was something approaching his team here, he'd emerge to go to work, but there isn't, so as far as he's concerned, he's found his niche and if it takes him longer than most to fulfill a wish, oh well. That he'd made friends here at all already has him feeling pretty good.
He has a distinct feeling of déjà vu when she prompts him to take part in a matchmaking service. Reid swears between them, his teammates have encouraged him to loosen up and go out a dozen times a year. His expression crinkles at this old refrain, but he answers with a tone of long-suffering complaint rather than true offense. "It's not my fault I showed up in January. You want me to go on a date? I don't know how to do that!"
Lydia gives an intentionally exaggerated roll of her eyes and shakes her head. "Nobody said you have to go on a date. It's just supposed to match you for a meet up. If you want it to just be hanging out, then let it be hanging out," she points out. "Come on, don't make me do this all by myself, Spence," she pouts, changing tack.
They're friends and growing closer, but she's not sure that tactic will actually work on him. It's worth trying, though, isn't it? If it'll get him to go out and meet people? "You're so much fun to be around and I feel really bad hogging you," she adds, although that is entirely honest and sincere, even if it does happen to be another weapon in this particular arsenal.
Together they head down a hall and toward the door that will lead outside. "It'll be fun, I promise. If you don't have fun, I'll never push you do to anything else like this ever again, how's that for a guarantee?" Lydia asks, lifting her eyebrows as she looks up at him.
This is all a lot to take at once. Reid is a bit of a skittish animal about making friends, let alone having a love life, and he stops short in the hall and raises his hands palm-out in the universal defensive gesture.
"Whoa, okay. You're not hogging me, I'm perfectly happy the way things are." He sounds openly skeptical and even a little disgruntled to be pressured out of his comfort zone. It's true; Spencer hadn't thought he'd make such a good friend, definitely this fast, the way he has with Lydia to start with. He thinks things are moving plenty quickly. "Why are you so invested in this? Don't try to tell me you need the support. You have more than adequate interpersonal confidence."
What does it matter to her if he's a shut-in or out dating people? It's not like he doesn't socialize. He just talked to his students for seventeen minutes!
Two perfectly manicured eyebrows lift with incredulity as the redhead looks back at Spencer when he says that she's not hogging him. "I am one hundred percent hogging you and I should be sharing my friend a little more, because he's kind of awesome," she replies, her expression softening into a smile.
He's right, though; Lydia hardly needs the moral support, because she's confident enough to feel like she's going to nail it no matter who she gets paired up with, but she still thinks it'd be more fun if they were both doing it.
"I have plenty of confidence, you're right. But I still think it would be more fun to do this if I knew that one of my best friends in this place was doing it, too. We can compare notes after. Come on, seriously, I promise it'll be fun, Spencer..." she pouts playfully, giving him her best set of big, round puppy eyes.
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Once he detangles himself from the students, he comes over to gather up his affects and his ever-present messenger bag, pausing briefly at her question.
"Uh... the local approximation of St. Valentine's Day? Nothing." Why would he be doing anything for it? He's both clueless and unsuspecting.
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Lydia gives a playfully long-suffering sigh and shakes her head. "Spence. You can't do nothing for it," she counters, starting to move toward the door slowly so that he'll follow her. "There's a match-making service. I'm going to do it. You should do it, too," she tells him.
Hell, she's got half a mind to sign him up, anyway, because she thinks he'd really enjoy himself if he let himself loosen up and get to know people. Nobody says that the match maker has to be a romantic date, anyway; he could use it to meet a new person that an algorithm thinks would be a good match for him. He might meet his new best friend, for all he knows, if he gives it a shot. "You can't blow off your first official Cadelle holiday. That's just an affront to the culture of our new temporary home," she points out, but she keeps her tone and expression light so that he knows that she's half-joking.
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He has a distinct feeling of déjà vu when she prompts him to take part in a matchmaking service. Reid swears between them, his teammates have encouraged him to loosen up and go out a dozen times a year. His expression crinkles at this old refrain, but he answers with a tone of long-suffering complaint rather than true offense. "It's not my fault I showed up in January. You want me to go on a date? I don't know how to do that!"
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They're friends and growing closer, but she's not sure that tactic will actually work on him. It's worth trying, though, isn't it? If it'll get him to go out and meet people? "You're so much fun to be around and I feel really bad hogging you," she adds, although that is entirely honest and sincere, even if it does happen to be another weapon in this particular arsenal.
Together they head down a hall and toward the door that will lead outside. "It'll be fun, I promise. If you don't have fun, I'll never push you do to anything else like this ever again, how's that for a guarantee?" Lydia asks, lifting her eyebrows as she looks up at him.
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"Whoa, okay. You're not hogging me, I'm perfectly happy the way things are." He sounds openly skeptical and even a little disgruntled to be pressured out of his comfort zone. It's true; Spencer hadn't thought he'd make such a good friend, definitely this fast, the way he has with Lydia to start with. He thinks things are moving plenty quickly. "Why are you so invested in this? Don't try to tell me you need the support. You have more than adequate interpersonal confidence."
What does it matter to her if he's a shut-in or out dating people? It's not like he doesn't socialize. He just talked to his students for seventeen minutes!
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He's right, though; Lydia hardly needs the moral support, because she's confident enough to feel like she's going to nail it no matter who she gets paired up with, but she still thinks it'd be more fun if they were both doing it.
"I have plenty of confidence, you're right. But I still think it would be more fun to do this if I knew that one of my best friends in this place was doing it, too. We can compare notes after. Come on, seriously, I promise it'll be fun, Spencer..." she pouts playfully, giving him her best set of big, round puppy eyes.