One Month One World One Year Challenge 2022

January 6

There was a boy he had met in the lounge, who had immediately come up to him wanting to show him something on his phone. Normally, Aaron despised talking to strangers, but this one, Hunter, he seemed different. Almost as if the Watcher wanted them to be friends. In Hunter, he had found his first real friend in his new life living in Mount Komorebi. Getting to see him was a wonderful break from, well, everything. He could almost forget that he was poor and had less than a single wall on his lot.

Hunter insisted on inviting Aaron over to his house, but Aaron always felt the need to decline. It wasn't that he didn't want to see Hunter, but maybe it was knowing that Hunter actually had somewhere to live, a "home"..., that made it hard to accept. . Was that weird? Maybe it was weird... When Hunter had told him of his dreams to move to Mount Komorebi himself because he wanted to learn how to snowboard while they were stargazing, Aaron had almost asked him to move in. Way to be forward, right. And it was way too freaking soon, after they had only just met! He had berated himself when Hunter had left for a jog soon after. "What on earth is wrong with me?" he had muttered out loud, and as if in response, the Watcher had deemed it necessary to buy him a bed at that exact moment. He didn't even have a house at that point, for Watcher's sake, and here he was about to ask a boy to move in??? He forced himself to calm down, but deep inside he wondered whether or not his impulses were leading him to think of Hunter as more than a friend. The boy was cute, that was obvious enough. But did they even have anything in common at all?

A few days passed, and Aaron was consumed with a desire to see him again, so invited him out to the bar. They exchanged a few jokes, and Aaron discovered to his delight that, like him, Hunter was a fan of METAL music. One box, ticked. And maybe it was stupid to think about it now considering they had only recently met, but already Aaron felt closely connected with the curly-haired boy.

He was surprised when Hunter agreed to come to the onsen with him, and even more surprised when he saw Hunter had a tattoo ("Cool tattoo, isn't it?" Hunter had said when he noticed Aaron was looking. Aaron had only nodded and looked away because he was definitely not looking past the tattoo at Hunter's pecs, nope ( ;) )). Still not confident enough to fully remove his own shirt, Aaron came to sit with him in the steaming water and tried not to stare.
"Honestly, having access to this onsen is a perk of living here in itself," Hunter was saying, "there's nothing like this in San Myshuno."
There it was again. Something burning in Aaron told him to take the chance and tell him to move to Mount Komorebi. (A stupid something) he thought to himself. "Yeah, it's awesome," he heard himself saying, his pulse quickening as he turned to look at Hunter. (Friends!) he yelled in his head, trying to ignore the feeling. (Nothing more!) "Especially after a vending machine fell on me on Saturday."
Hunter looked at him, aghast. "A vending machine fell on you?"
"Those vending machines are vicious," Aaron tried to grin and make light of what had happened, downplaying how much pain it had actually put him in. "It ate my money and refused to give me what I paid for, so I climbed on top of it, and, well..."
Hunter shook his head and laughed. "You're crazy, dude. Taking the chance to fight a vending machine? I'd rather fight a Murphy bed."
"No way!" Aaron responded. "I've heard horror stories about those things. I swear there's someone who died to a Murphy bed in the cemetery here."
"But no-one who died to a vending machine?"
"Touche... but I bet no-one would care if it had actually killed me."
"Well, I for one am glad that you're not dead," Hunter said with a genuinely warm smile. "I know we met only last week but you're already way more fun to hang out with than my brothers. You're a pretty cool guy, Aaron."
Aaron felt his cheeks grow warm and tried to convince himself it was because of how hot the onsen was.
"I... uh..." he stammered for a second, then looked up into Hunter's warm eyes. They were sparkling.


NOTE: okay so I used to use Wonderful Whims, but I removed it a few months ago because one half of a couple I wanted to get together found the other half very unattractive (I was extremely disappointed lol), but I'm going to put the mod back in and start using it again so I can see if Aaron actually finds Hunter attractive ;) If he doesn't then he can just move on but maybe they can have a casual flirtation or something. It is only day 6 after all.

Edited to add:


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Aaron and Hunter at the bar
https://i.imgur.com/mpLcuHQ.png

Showering in the onsen
https://i.imgur.com/XMrZ00Y.png

Pure bliss. (I just wish they had actually sat next to each other!)
https://i.imgur.com/nmyVIcu.png

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Aaron did do things other than hang out with Hunter haha but I was bitten by the writing bug :D
https://i.imgur.com/bruGNb1.png
https://i.imgur.com/ZZ5K00x.png
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