Astro-Boiz(Trevor)

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Unlike some of the other clubs, the Astronomy group still met during the summer. Because summer was the best time for stargazing. It was warmer, the sky was clearer than in the cooler months, and they didn't have school to worry about the next day that would keep them from staying out late so they could spend the evening looking up at the sky. Sometimes those times were in the early morning. When they weren't meeting outside for such activities, they were in the club office, looking at charts and researching through astronomy books and articles, both old and new. Naozumi liked to keep up with the latest discoveries when he could, but with his new schedule that was proving much harder than it used to be.

Nao hadn't been to a club meeting in a while. School took up a lot of that time during the school year. He also had track meets, though it wasn't required that he attend them because his ability gave him an unfair advantage. More recently, Naozumi had gotten a position as an instructor at the local dojo, teaching his preferred art of aikido. All of these had taken up quite a bit of his spare time, and while he might have been able to attend on some days, when it came to a choice between going to a club meeting or spending an afternoon or evening with Ray, Naozumi was 9 times out of ten going to choose the latter.

The Japanese boy wondered if the other members even remembered that he was a member too? Nao was already so unnoticeable, he wouldn't be surprised. Then again, there weren't many members to begin with, so he could be wrong.

There was no practice today, and Ray had something else he had to do, so Nao supposed that now would be as good a time as any to make an appearance, since if he remembered correctly, there was supposed to be a meeting today. The boy gingerly knocked upon the door to the clubroom before opening it to peer inside, hoping to be met with at least one familiar face. "Hello? Is anyone here?" he called out in his usual hushed voice into the small office. As far as he could tell, it was empty, and that fact weighed heavily on his heart. Did he get the time wrong? Or had membership finally fizzled out to none?

Naozumi stood in the doorway, dazed and wondering if he should stay and wait or leave to find something else to do, as somebody else quietly approached from behind.

[Trevor Wallace]

Trevor had not actually been into the astronomy club room for a lot of the summer. He occaisionally stopped in to check papers or doublecheck a chart but overall summer meetings had been out of doors just before curfew. As he approached the room, he noticed a shorter someone who he had not seen in quite some time (at least for a greater part of the summer anyway).

The taller teen walked up and patted Nao on the shoulder with a smile. "Haven't seen ya in a while. How are you?" Trevor asked. "You know you can go in, we just haven't used the room in a while." He paused to let out a bit of a laugh. "At least it's not a mess."

Looking at the bright side helped. At least Trevor thought it helped. T adjusted his glasses to sit right on his face and shifted the bundle of papers under his arm so he wouldn't drop them. They were mostly various articles on recent discoveries in the sky that he'd either taken from the room or printed himself.

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Nao turned, startled by the sudden hand on his shoulder, though the only indication of that was the flinch that came with it. His face remained as relaxed as it always did, near expressionless, in fact. Though upon seeing his fellow club member, Nao did break out into a soft smile. “Trevor,” he said in his usual subdued tone, looking up at the taller boy behind him. “I’m okay. It’s been a while.” And it was refreshing to see a familiar face, even though it’d been some time since he’d seen it.

“Sorry,” he said quickly, shuffling into the room to make room for Trevor to move past, offering a small laugh to join in with the other boy’s. “Yes, that’s true, isn’t it?” Nao stood on the sidelines, watching Trevor silently as he coordinated with the stack of papers he was carrying, wondering if he should offer a helping hand.

That decision was made for him, however, when he saw that a handful of them were sliding just a bit too far awry. Nao quickly moved forward to catch them before they splayed across the floor. “Sorry…” For what? He paused in his usual awkwardness. “Here, let me help,” the boy offered, holding out his arms to take hold of some of the stack, if Trevor was willing to let him. Pending this, Nao would carry his portion of the stack to the table within the clubroom and set them upon it. “Are these new?” he asked, flipping briefly through some of the pages in his curiosity.

[Trevor Wallace]

"Huh? Oh, yeah, thanks!" Trevor let about half the stack of papers fall into Naozumi's waiting hands. Today would be a day sans papers flying everywhere. He followed Nao into the Astronomy club room and place his own pages down next to the rest of them and watched as the speedster flipped through some of them. "Would have been a pain to sort through if they fell," he admitted with another small laugh.

"Some are new, some are older" was his response. He put his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on the heels of his feet. "The one I'm most excited for is..." he let the word hang as Nao flipped through before pointing at an article as it came up. "That one. End of the month there's a lunar eclipse, but it's also a supermoon." The astronomer in him was coming out. "It won't happen again for like..." he paused and looked down to the page. "...another eighteen years. Even better is we'll have a great view!"

The excitement in T's voice was very clear.

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There were a lot of papers here. Some of the articles were old, ones that Naozumi had already read or parsed through before, but others were much newer. More recent in their research. And that made the young enthusiast smile. Yes, this was what he missed from the Astronomy club. “Yes, I imagine so,” he agreed with a nod, the small smile still adorning his face. “I would have helped you sort through them again, though, if that happened.” With Nao’s ability, it would have saved at least a little bit of time.

Nao looked up at the older teen, excitement sparkling in his eyes at the mention of the lunar eclipse and supermoon. “Is there really?” He looked down again, somewhat sheepish, as he started fiddling through the papers and organizing them across the table. “I’m so behind in everything. I should have already known that.” It was a small wound to his pride. Nao had been very busy, after all. But that didn’t mean that he didn’t enjoy this subject any less than when he first got into it.

“Is there a meeting planned?” he asked hopefully. Then there was a sudden realization. “Is there anyone who would come? You’re not the only member left, are you?” If he was, then what guilt Nao would have for leaving Trevor to do everything himself!

[Trevor Wallace]

"Oh no, of course not!" He told Nao, taking a step away from the papers for a moment. "But, I dunno if Mr. Hayes has anything planned." Trevor walked back over to the table and actually sat down in a nearby chair, moving his glasses up to the top of his head to rub at his eyes. "I hope so."

There was a soft, almost awe-struck sigh when Trevor paused. "I really hope so. Supermoon and an eclipse? Stuff like that is super rare!" Clearly, he was excited about it. While definitely not a once in a lifetime sort of thing, it was definitely a unique experience. "But what do you think Nao? Even if Mr. Hayes doesn't arrange anything, you still gonna stay up for it?" he asked.

"I know I will be." Another pause. "We definitely have to start getting together more, whether it's for this stuff or track or whatever." He grinned ear to ear and started to help sort through the papers.

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Oh, thank god. Nao wouldn’t know how to feel if he learned that Trevor was the only person left in the club. It’d make him feel guilty for having a life outside of it. Nao had so many other things going on, but that didn’t mean he didn’t miss being more involved.

“Mm,” he hummed with a nod. “I hope so too.” Seeing Trevor get excited over the even was infectious, though Nao would have been all by himself just hearing of it. He smiled a slight bit more and nodded again, still standing with his hand resting before him on the table. “I think I will. Actually, I think I’ll make plans specifically for it.” So he wouldn’t forget and flake out. Nao tilted his head at another thought. “Do you think we can bring other people? People who aren’t in the club?” Naozumi didn’t see why they couldn’t, but it was always good to check on that. He might want to ask Ray to come. Or even Yuri-chan. His sister might enjoy it quite a bit, he reasoned.

He turned his attention back down to the papers as Trevor spoke, taking note of the titles of some of them. “We really should,” he agreed, looking up briefly then down again. “I’ve been really busy lately, but there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to hang out more often.” Nao was just…selfish maybe? He snickered softly. “Even if it’s just sitting up on the roof, looking at the sky, I think that’d be okay.” It didn’t have to be anything special. Simple was preferred for Nao, actually. He didn’t like to complicate things if he didn’t have to.

[Trevor Wallace]

Trevor nodded, wholeheartedly agreeing with pretty much everything Nao had said. Plans specifically for something like this was totally a great idea, especially since an event like what they were looking forward to only happened once every eighteen years or so. Needless to say, T's excitement remained high.

"I... actually dunno." He glanced up at the ceiling to think about an answer to Nao's question about bringing people. "I mean, it couldn't hurt to ask if you can bring someone else if Mr. Hayes ends up having something planned." Trevor's gaze made its way back down to the papers on the table as he started stacking some of the papers that had made it into decently sorted piles. "Roof sounds good to me" he added, looking toward his astronomy buddy. "I mean hey, staring at the sky is a big part of what we do anyway" he said through a grin, referencing most of the astronomy club activities.

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“Mmm,” he hummed in response to Trevor’s advice. Maybe he would ask Ray to come…that wouldn’t be too strange, would it? To ask a friend? Because that’s all that Ray was, just a friend. “I’ll do that then, next time I see him.”

He smiled slightly when Trevor agreed to his simple suggestion. “Yes, I think that’d be nice.” It’d be something low key to do. Not stimulating, but relaxing. And Nao could use some good relaxing time in his life these days. “I can text you sometime, when the sky is clear,” he offered.

Naozumi fell silent after that as he returned to sorting through the articles that Trevor had brought. Nao wasn’t a very talkative person by nature, and found comfort in simple being able to hang around someone without the pressures of feeling like he needed to talk. Besides, he’d also gotten caught up in reading some of the articles as he rifled through them. Nao smiled as he did so.

[Trevor Wallace]

Trevor, by nature, could talk up a storm and go for hours about the most innocuous things. In this case, however, the silence was valuable. He didn't mind it one bit. "Sure, that sounds pretty good to me" he answered, glancing Nao's direction. As the two sat in silence to shuffle through papers a smile crossed Trevor's face.

They really didn't need to be talking to just hang out. It was nice to have someone that shared interest, even if there wasn't verbal discussion. As he looked through the papers, Trevor would laugh or exclaim about this or that. It was nice.