The well was off the beaten path, in the grounds of the butterfly conservatory but not on a marked track. The pair had stumbled upon it quite by accident and it had been a bit of fun. They had each taken a loonie, a Canadian dollar coin, and tossed it in. Their wishes they had kept to themselves.<br/><br/>They were on the road, in a battered old Ford, heading for Toronto to Fan Expo. They had met and found a solid friendship in college in New York, New York. Angel was studying Computer Science and was quiet and shy, he mostly kept to himself and it was by chance he met and befriended Bailey. Bailey was English, but her father had moved the family west due to work considerations, he had been running a branch office of a major multinational publishing corporation and had been offered a VP position at the head office in the US. The family had come along and were living in a large condo largely paid for by the corporation. They had met due to cooking.<br/><br/>Angel had been making buñuelos in the east communal kitchen on their floor. A ball of cheese and cornstarch they are dropped in hot oil and deep fried. It was early in his first year and Angel was homesick, he had made buñuelos a lot growing up with his mom and grandmother down in Medellin. Now up in the US, so far from his home, his family, his heritage, it was something of home, the smells and tastes so familiar. The smell had drawn in Bailey who was making up some cheese on toast which really doesn't hold a candle to what Angel was cooking.<br/><br/>The friendship started with Bailey wandering up to Angel and saying with a smile, "Those smell amazing. And they look like are terrible for you, what are they?" Bailey wasn't above approaching strangers and asking questions, especially where there could be tasty cheese based foods in the offing. She wasn't the most forward of self confident individual on the planet, but, well, deep fried cheese balls were a very compelling case to initiate first contact! The accents had been hard for both at first, English was hard for Angel to grasp and his Colombian accent caused Bailey more than a little consternation, yet they persevered.<br/><br/>From there they had talked about cooking, about college, where Bailey was studying electrical and mechanical engineering, about hobbies, about fandoms and discovered they both liked all kinds of science fiction and fantasy along with many video games.<br/><br/>They were fast and easy friends and when they weren't studying they would spend a lot of time in each other's cramped rooms talking or in one of the communal lounges playing games or watching movies.<br/><br/>It could have evolved beyond a friendship easily if it hadn't been for one small detail, one tiny little fly in the ointment. Bailey wasn't sexually attracted to dudes. She didn't have an issue with guys, at all, she enjoyed their company a great deal, she just didn't really want to fuck them.<br/><br/>The trip up to Canada to attend Fan-Expo had come about because they both liked Doctor Who and well, Matt Smith, John Barrowman, Catherine Tate, Billy Piper, Karen Gillan, all in one place. Throw in Nathan Fillion and Tim Curry and, frankly the list went on, and on, it was an opportunity that was not going to be missed.<br/><br/>They had made it through two years of college together and were just starting their third, it was a weekend long event but the trip there was going to take a few days in the car, so they had elected to take a week out of study time to head up there and back and catch up later. This was important, this was something that wasn't about to happen more than once in a lifetime! This was a chance to go on a long road trip, see some of New York state, go through Niagara Falls and see the spectacle that was one of the seven wonders of the world and then go see some people that made dreams come true on film and television! It was a crazy plan, and they were going to regret it when they had to work like Spartans to catch up with their lost time on their courses, but damn if they weren't going to do it anyway.<br/><br/>But they needed wheels. They needed a co-conspirator. Someone with a car and a US drivers licence. Someone local who could help them look more legitimate to US and Canadian customs! They needed to drag in one of their other friends!<br/><br/>Chris was a year ahead of the other two but was on the same floor. He was more of a friend of Angel than Bailey, but they all knew each other fairly well and Chris had often been involved in their shenanigans in the past. He had been recruited because he was available, he was close by, he was willing to be talked into going and because he had a car. Chris agreed to go with them because he was studying media at college and this was an opportunity to see this strange convention thing, plus, well, some of the panels sounded kinda cool and Toronto had a huge media industry. It and Vancouver were extremely prolific for both film and TV due to the tax breaks the Canadian, Ontario and BC governments had in place to attract the market. Besides, it was a long road trip with good friends where he could see the countryside, and they were paying.<br/><br/>Oh yes.<br/><br/>If he was going they were paying for fuel, for his lodgings (which he was admittedly to be sharing with the other two, but hey! Bailey was easy on the eye, and Angel was a close friend. Plus, they were paying for his entry to the convention. It was a very cheap vacation for him and just too good not to pass up. Truth be told if Bailey hadn't insisted she pay for his tickets as compensation for all the driving well he would have seriously considered going anyway. He hadn't had a vacation since starting college and this sounded like a lot of fun.<br/><br/>So it was that they all wound up at the wishing well, dropping coins into it, making their respective wishes and going on about their day. The butterflies were pretty and Bailey took a lot of pictures with her quite impressive looking camera that she wasn't overly sure she was using correctly but was determined to learn no matter the embarrassment and they had piled back in the car for the short hop up to Toronto for the evening. They had a hotel booked a short subway ride from the event and they wanted to arrive in good time so they could bed down nice and early. Three days at Fan Expo!<br/><br/>It was all really very exciting.