How Green Becomes Wood

"Oh, cool, let me see it," Sloan replied, moving closer so she could see the video.

"Yeah," Milo mumbled, putting his phone away, "I never know what to think when someone says we'll talk later."
 
The video was of a floor routine that threw in a couple of unusual but not seriously complicated moves. Becky enthused over how smooth it looked and how pretty the athlete looked while doing it.

"You could tell her," Xander remarked, chewing a piece of bread crust. "That it sends you into a spiral."
 
Sloan pointed out what some of the moves were, stating when it was something she knew how to do and pointing out technically successes and misses in the performance.

Glancing at Xander, the look on Milo's face was as though Xander suggested he simply stand up in front of the entire school and share into a microphone all the most embarrassing moments of his life. "I... guess...?"
 
Becky soaked it up, truly interested in Sloan's point of view, her passion, and her knowledge. She asked questions and fanned a little over the fact that she knew someone who knew her stuff and would be in the running for the Olympics someday.

Xander fought to keep his expression calm and serious. "Yes, I can see how expressing to a friendly person how something makes you uncomfortable would be the absolute worst thing ever."
 
"Uh-huh. So, if I just called to Becky right now and told her you had something to tell her..." He let the sentence hang just long enough to watch Milo's expression before averting the crisis of a teenager having a heartattack. "Relax. I wouldn't do that to you." He paused for a minute. "You de realize, though, that you gave her your phone number."
 
True to Xander's expectation, a look of pure horror came over Milo's face before he was told to relax. Then, continuing to stare at Xander as though he had gone mad, said, "Well, yeah---she asked, so she could send me the thing... I would've looked weird to say no?"
 
"Sure. It'd look a little weird," Xander agreed. He started to say more but then waved it away. "Never mind. Did you finish yesterday's science homework? What did you get for the third question."
 
"Cool." Xander thought about commenting how "none of us is allowed to date, Sloan and I decided it," but decided to keep that to himself. He didn't think Milo was quite get the humor. Cementing that Noor and Milo were not in any sense a couple, that meant Becky was still free to shoot her shot. Looked like it was failing so far, but he wasn't going to get in her way. If Noor and Milo had been a couple of some kind - and he hoped Milo would have mentioned it to him - then Xander would have stepped in enough to let Becky know she was encroaching upon another girl's territory.
 
"Nope. I haven't talked to her once since she left, I don't think," Xander said. "To be honest, I kind of forget about the rest of the family. Kind of hard to feel attached when you've only seen them once or twice. Except a couple of the aunties. We talk to them over video call now and then."
 
"Yeah, that makes sense. I don't really talk to my aunts and cousins much anymore, it's hard when you live far from them." Milo said, "Harder, I bet, if you have such different lives.'
 
"Yeah. I don't know if I want to get to know them better or not. I'm not, like, against the idea, but it's just not really a habit I'm used to, so it's kind of weird," Xander admitted. "What about you? Would you want to talk to yours more?"
 
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