Classroom to center stage: A bobcat lovestory

By Nala McKenzie

Blog Content Contributor

Love can spark in the most unexpected places—and an even more unexpected time. It’s not usual to end up with someone you’ve once attended kindergarten with, however, for Pluto they were rather lucky in this instance, ending up with their childhood sweetheart until this day.

“2nd grade, the first memory I have is when he walked up to me and recited the Micheal Jackson and Elvis Pressley line; however I was nine so I didn’t really get it.” Said Pluto.

Sadly, their lover to be had eventually moved for a few years and only returned freshman year of high school. Eventually, the two partook in a musical together where he played as Pluto’s father.

  This musical is where they truly started bonding, which developed their friendship. Then, by junior year, the two were playing Eric and Ariel from “The Little Mermaid”. However, many consider it taboo to fall in love with your scene partner or to date your scene partner.

That’s just a small, non-spoken rule at times in some theatre departments. Yet, for these two it ended up forming naturally, and of course the proximity of the play assisted in their love for one another.

“When the show finished there was this whole thing where people told me they had feeling for him, and at the time he had also told me he liked someone else at the time, but the real thing was he was hoping I’d been like ‘No, I like you though!’ very Disney channel,” said Pluto.

Hearing about other people claiming to like them had made it quite awkward for Pluto as they were close friends to Pluto who’d been informing them of their crush. Pluto simply cheered them on as a good friend would.

“It’s so crazy, it’s wild and most people just don’t believe it because of how unreal it seems!” says Pluto.

A story as wild as this one that just aligned so perfectly you could consider the two a perfect match. Pluto truly is a kind soul and is a lovely person; they even gave some tips on things that can help in maintaining or keeping a relationship afloat.

“Have fun honestly, I’m personal in belief you should always get to know someone before dating friends to lovers,” Pluto said.

Which as some know, ‘book girlies’ refer to this as a trope of two people who start off as friends and slowly develop feelings from being around one another so often.

“Because I feel as if you need to build some sort of foundation of trust, whether you know you’re interested or not but there needs to be a foundation of trust; also, you need to talk to them. Because the reason I feel our relationship has been so healthy and so like it has flourished is because we talked to each other about something that’s upsetting us,” said Pluto.

There’s a saying that many use: ‘Communication is key.’

It’s something typically used for relationships of any kind: friendships, romantic, familial- all of it.

It’s always suggested to talk to people as it helps relationships regardless of the context of it.

 The two will be celebrating Valentine’s Day at a theater, which Pluto will be performing on opening night; it’ll be as endearing as the rest of their love story.