Nerdy Love Misfire by TomThumb1206 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Content Warning: Contains nerdy mishaps, unexpected romance, and scientific jargon. Proceed with curiosity.

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Esha was a self-proclaimed nerd, always buried in books or tinkering with gadgets in her basement lab. She had been working on a teleportation device for months, but it wasn't quite ready for actual use. Instead, she discovered that the device had an unintended feature—it allowed her to spy on people. Not that she intended to use it for that, but it just so happened that she could observe the guy she had been swooning over for months, Raj.

Raj was someone she met at a party she had hosted last year. He was charming, funny, and completely out of her league, or so she thought. So, she used the device to watch him, dreaming of a relationship that felt impossible.

One day, after another session of dreaming and spying, Esha was distracted by the doorbell, realizing it was the delivery of the books she had ordered. She forgot to turn off the device and went upstairs. She curled up on the couch, completely absorbed in the new book, losing track of time.

Meanwhile, the device in the basement, left on and unattended, began to hum louder and louder. The teleportation function, still unstable and untested, started to activate. The screen said, "POWER INSUFFICENT: CALCULATING COMPENSION"

The device, designed to manipulate quantum states for instantaneous matter transfer, tried to draw on ambient power sources due to insufficient initial energy levels, but it failed to reach those power levels.

Still, it focused on Raj, who was in his apartment, feeling a strange sensation wash over him. There was a pop, and in an instant, he was no longer in his apartment but standing in a living room that seemed oddly familiar.

"How did I get here?" Raj exclaimed, bewildered.

Raj looked around, recognizing the place from the party he attended last year. He opened his mouth to ask another question but stopped himself as he turned around and saw a shocked Esha, hand covering her mouth, still speechless. His gaze followed her legs right up to her canopying feet, with their huge toes hanging over him. The scene was too surreal, and the shock of sudden teleportation was too much to immediately process.

The device, still humming in the basement, emitted a loud, ominous BEEP and an audio voice saying, "TELEPORT COMPENSATION COMPLETE," snapping both of them out of their stunned silence. Esha's eyes widened in realization and horror. Epilogue

And for the nerds out there, you see, Esha, a scientist working on an experimental teleportation device, had inadvertently left the machine powered on after a session of quantum entanglement observation. The device's quantum state recalibration and space-time coordinate mapping malfunction had resulted in Raj's sudden translocation from his apartment to her living room. The machine's final output indicated the completion of its automatic error-correction protocol, albeit with unintended consequences.

But honestly, who cares about the details? The guy of her dreams was now in her living room. 😀

When science and love collide, expect the unexpected. - TomThumb

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