Triple Theater Treat [Daniel/Mariko/Root]

Alexander Root was not one to leave his lab very often, except for school, seeing as attending the school allowed him pretty much unlimited funding for his experiments. However, today was a special day, because his friend, a film director, had a movie coming out. While at first he debated actually going, the thought of spending the day with her had defeated all of his responsibilities and his workaholic tendencies. His sister had tried to get him to dress up because 'it's a date!' even though he tried to convince her several times it was not a date. Alas, he ended up going just like he always looked, lab coat, non-tucked in t-shirt, a pair of slacks that probably had many chemicals spill on in the past. However, he did end up taking a shower, brushing his hair, and wearing clean clothes.

Packing up his notebook into his lab coat, Root made his way to the theater they had agreed on. After all, it was an opening night and she probably was nervous. It was like when he had to present an idea to a board of fellow scientists about his experiments and his theories. Even one like Root got nervous when he was presenting. Actually, Root got very nervous a lot even with science, but he was fairly good at pretending to be confident, except when he was around a specific pretty girl.

Speaking of that specific pretty girl, when Root arrived at the theater his eyes skated over her for just a second, spotting his brown haired friend before his eyes locked on Mariko wearing… well, a skirt and everything. Root completely forgot about spotting his friend and stared for a few moments. Now he felt like he was totally underdressed for this whole thing. He quickly turned around hoping she didn't spot him and took a deep breath. He tucked in his t-shirt and tucked the end of his belt that usually just hung freely into his belt loops. He ran a hand through his hair and debated taking off the lab coat or not. Where would he put it?

Quickly Root took off his white lab coat and looked around before deciding to sling it into a nearby trashcan, feeling a bit sad at throwing away a lab coat. Of course he took out his journal before he threw the lab coat in the can. It felt so weird to have no lab coat on, for his skin to be bear to the air. Taking a deep breath, he approached Mariko with a grin on his face. "H-Hi. I-I didn't know I was supposed to dress up. Sorry." He laughed nervously. "You look great."

Root took his seat next to Mariko, with the green haired beauty sitting between him and Daniel. He kept questioning himself. Should he put his hand on her leg? Put his arm around her? Oh god, what if she thought he was… like, coming onto her, even if that was sort of what he was thinking about doing. What if she thought that and was weirded out? He didn't want her to feel uncomfortable or anything like that. And most of all he didn't want her to try to get away from him and actually find out that he really, truly thought she was attractive and currently had a huge crush on her. He'd been denying it for a while, but he had eventually just admitted it to himself. But no matter what she couldn't find out. And since he had admitted it, he could avoid her detecting it. Then again, what would a little gesture hurt?

They were sitting down and just as Root was going to lean back and place an arm around the back of her chair, when she propped her feet up on the chair in front of her. Immediately his mind was swimming with such inappropriate thoughts, and he had to close his eyes for a fleeting moment to banish them from his mind. His eyes dropped to her hand which soon raised up and pointed at a name. His eyes followed and he stared at the name for a moment as he words finally hit him. He clenched his teeth as he fumed with rage mixed with jealousy. If he had heat vision activated by negative emotions, that screen would be completely destroyed and the building would be on fire by how hard he was glaring at that screen, even after the name disappeared.

He quickly wrote down in his journal the name along with the phrase: 'inappropriate to Mariko'. That way he wouldn't forgot the name. And if he heard it again, or encountered the dude, he would have a few choice words for the guy, or well about the guy at least. "If he gives you any problems," Root say sighing and leaning back, placing his arm on the back of her chair, draping around but not touching her (wow, that's probably the smoothest thing Root had ever done in his life), "I'll have Daniel sic Kaneko on him." Root laughed to signify that he was joking, but of course, he wasn't truly joking in the end. The green was strong in him.