pairing: kenny omega x honey (fem!oc)
plot: honey, known totally-not-a-klutz was dragged into a rolling rink by her friends, she's not happy about it. oh! and her crush since kindergarten is there too.
genre: fluff
warning: n/a
word count: 2.1k
author's note: i took inspiration from the opening scene from diary of a wimpy kid: rodrick rules. i really need to watch that movie again. also this is a high school au because i'm a sucker for those. anyways.
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honey was far away from everyone else, thankfully, sitting on one of the stools surrounding the holographic circular tables that was littered around the rink by herself. the rainbow disco light sent beams of different colors around the building, the big tinted windows and tables catching and reflecting the light, simply another thing that could be the reason for another unfortunate happening in honey's life as well as the people around her.
the light could get into her eye and she could bang into someone, or something, maybe someone who was carrying food, maybe even a child, if the universe was feeling particularly cruel that day. the past week could have gotten worse, maybe it'll make up for all the accidents this week.
you see, honey is cursed with a bad case of murphy's law, what ever can go wrong, will go wrong and it's been like that for as long as she could remember.
first there was the art class incident, where she was actually making decent art, only when she was walking backwards to get a better view of her handiwork, she bumped into someone and their artwork, then much like a pinball, bumped into someone else. in the end? her whole art class were casualties and to make it worse, her painting was the only art piece to survive, the fact that her teacher wasn't the nicest didn't help. the man didn't let her classmates redo or even retouch their work when the bell rang nor did he let honey take the fall meaning: all of her classmates had bad grades, except for her.
then there was the theater incident, where everything in the school theater wasn't working right during their production of romeo and juliet though everything worked properly ninety nine percent of the time, their school was even recognized as the best one performance arts wise in the whole district. the only thing that was changed during that day was the fact that honey was playing the role of juliet. needless to say, their school lost a lot of credibility after that one, the theater kids weren't particularly happy with her either.
a particularly embarrassing one was the softball incident of third grade. their school grounds were well kept, the most well kept in the community and honey wasn't the best at sports (sports and murphy's law didn't exactly mix well, if you couldn't tell), with legs too wobby and unstable along with arms a little too boney and too weak. during a softball game though, they were losing horrendously and she had to be put on to the field as a last resort. what some people expected was just for them to lose, what actually happened next caught everyone off guard. with the power of murphy's law, honey was actually able to throw the ball far, straight as an arrow and as powerful as a whip.
she, along with her team and parents in the crowd were about to celebrate before realizing that it was perhaps a little too powerful as it slipped right out of her opposing team's reach and into a far away beehive.
she has a couple more stories, some funny and some downright embarrassing, some she would rather forget and some that she has luckily repressed so it goes without saying that her track record wasn't too clean, but at least people knew to stay out of her way now. call her moses cause the hallways would always part like the red sea when honey would pass by. it has its perks, really, something that she almost enjoys. almost.
one of her friends, jules came up to her with a smile, skating to the table at the very back of the building away from everybody else accompanied by so much grace honey should find it insulting. they came at her with a c'mon honey, have some fun!
this only made the clumsy girl scoff.
"contrary to popular belief, i actually don't consider embarrassing myself and going to a hospital, or making someone else go to the hospital a fun time" she glared at them. "i don't even know why you dragged me into this place in the first place." she huffed out crossing her arms over her chest.
"if you don't consider it a good time, then why do you do it so much" they jokingly said making honey get out of the chair, turn her back on them and try to skate away, she could always hang out in the comfort rooms, after all. before she could get far though, jules put a hand on her arm and pulled her back into the table chuckling just a joke.
"seriously though honey, go and skate with me and the group or have fun by the arcade, get a snack." they shrugged at her. "surely that's better than just standing here waiting for this to end."
honey just shook her head at her friend. "you just don't understand, i don't feel like embarrassing myself right now, alright? i'm a little worn out." she pursued her lips, looking elsewhere but her best friend.
"i've seen you skate before, we've skated before, you're not bad at it." jules shrugged before continuing their idea for honey.
"look, how about when there's less people in the rink, we can go out and skate. me and grey will be beside you, charlie will be behind you and kat will be in front of you, we'll be making sure you don't get or cause any injuries tonight." they suggested, desperate to make their friend have fun as they were the ones to drag honey into this in the first place.
honey sighed, "where even is grey?" asking for the whereabouts of her friend who she hasn't seen in a while since entering the rolling rink. jules' smirk grew, "oh he's in the bathroom with clyde." they informed her with a wink making honey's face scrunch up.
"actually correction, they just left the bathroom, grey's about to skate with the others now and clyde's hanging out with kenny again." jules quickly corrected themselves as they saw the boys exit the comfort room.
honey was reminded of the other reason she didn't want to be humiliated tonight: kenny omega. she's had a crush on the curly haired blonde boy ever since she knew what a crush was. staring at his back during recess ever since kindergarten and doodling his name on her notebook in second grade.
she always admired his looks, yes, but there was also something about the grace he possessed, being the natural athlete that he was that called to her. the way he moved in the rink during his hockey games as if he was dancing, it came so naturally to him and honey would be lying through her teeth if she said she wasn't the tiniest bit envious of this particular trait or if she said she didn't find it ridiculously attractive.
"you guys really aren't gonna quit on me skating tonight, aren't you?" she sighed in defeat as jules mouth bursted out in a grin they regularly had on, proudly saying nope!
"guess i don't have a choice then, alright i'll wait until the rink clears out a bit. now go and pester someone else!" she waved them off, feeling defeated and visibly deflated. jules winked at her again, knowing the plan they had up their sleeve before skating of to the rest of their friend group. honey was gonna be thanking them for the invitation at the end of the night, they were sure of it.
what am i going to do honey groaned internally, smacking her head on the table which caused the soda there to spill. she gritted her teeth before grabbing paper towels from the concession stands and cleaning that up, people moving ten feet out of her way if she walked anywhere near them as she did so.
five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes, maybe the rink isn't going to get cleared out after all honey grinned at the thought and sight of the rink still being fairly crowded but sadly, that didn't last long.
as if it was choreographed just to get under her skin, everyone started to get out all at the same time and chat with other people at the tables and grab some snacks.
she knew she was done for it when with the biggest (most evil) smile, jules walked towards her with their signature grin. "time for you to shine, honey!". she didn't know if her heart beating so loudly messed with her hearing but she swore she heard people around her breathe out a sigh of relief as she went further away from them.
they all started skating together and as promised, her friends formed a protective barrier of sorts around her. they skated and danced along to the music, bobbing their heads to the likes of MARINA, gwen stefani and one direction. much to her surprise and delight, honey was actually having a nice time. she let her walls down knowing that because she was in the rink, not a lot of people were going to enter and get in her way.
her walls being down was the reason why she didn't notice that one by one, her friends started to leave her side. charlie, the one behind her, being the first one to do so and walking towards the dj in the front of the room and whispering into his ear.
beside her, kenny and clyde were skating as well, the latter boy excusing himself to get a drink and it was just kenny and honey in that area.
the cheery bubblegum pop music stopped abruptly and the dj spoke in the mic. "alright, how about a slow dance to mix things up a notch."
honey's eyes widened, spotting charlie next to the dj and all her other friends out of the rink grinning at her before she lost balance, channeling a deer on jelly legs about to fall down when a warm hand reached out to grab her by the waist. her head snapped up quickly to meet blue eyes, the owner of which she's spent hours daydreaming about.
a furious blush spread on her cheeks as she stuttered out apologizes, trying (and failing) to steady herself with the intent of skating out of the rink. kenny gave her a soft smile, the same one she always thinks about and lives in her head rent free.
"no need to apologize, honey is it?" he asked for confirmation of her name and she simply responded with a nod, stuck between being too awestruck because oh my god kenny omega is right here and he's touching me and shocked because how in the world did my friends know about this? to speak. she closed her mouth and swallowed as he spoke again, honey actually had to put effort into listening and understanding the words coming out of his mouth instead of just being a pile of loving, enamored mush.
how is this boy's voice so dreamy anyways?
she swore kenny could be lecturing her about calculus and anything math or sports related for that matter and she would still be listening instead of drifting off to dreamland. that's a big deal for honey. and a good idea too, if she was being honest. it would mean no more failed quizzes.
"i was wondering, do you want to, maybe, dance together? i noticed you weren't having too much fun tonight and i wanna change that" he offered, careful with his words, his gentle smile on his lips as if he was assuring her no pressure. once he saw the reluctance on her face, he added "don't worry, i'm not gonna let you fall. to be honest, jules kinda terrifies me..." he trailed off, scratching the back of his head before chuckling.
"so what'd you say?"
honey smiled up at him and nodded, wrapping her hands around his neck as he pulled her closer by her waist.
she had no idea how her friends figured out her crush on kenny omega, she was sure she's never told anyone, not even jules but the smile on their faces, along with the one on clyde's told her everything that she needed to know.
her friends knew her way too well and she'd be thanking them later.