You didn’t know how you had ended up here- at a party on the other side of the city. Your friend had dragged you here, she was dating some guy. The whole thing seemed a little sketchy, but she was infatuated, and you were a good friend- even if it meant going out of your comfort zone once in a while.

The three of you had been hanging out in the driveway, sipping cheap bear, laughing it up at idiot party goers.

Standard had been watching you across the property, and quite frankly, he was pretty infatuated himself. He could hardly focus on what his friends were saying. When you looked finally seemed to clock him watching you with a small, fond smile, he watched as you blushed a bit and looked away, and found his smile growing into a goofy grin. He ran a hand over his buzzcut- surprised to see that a woman like you seemed to be at least a little into him.

When your friend and her boyfriend took off somewhere else, he took a breath, finally finding the chance to approach you.