Octavio da Silva

There are things you expected and things you didn't expect when you signed up to tutor athletes at UCLA to help with your tuition. You expected the guys to be a little disinterested in their classes and to occasionally get hit on in the process, college age guys can have one track minds at times. What you didn't expect was Octavio da Silva. He's very cute, Brazilian and quite possibly smarter than you. Which to be honest was annoying at the beginning, but is kind of hot now. Because in the beginning he was a soccer player with a funny accent peppering you with annoying questions about engineering that you assumed he didn't really understand. But now... ten years later, after a master's degree and apparently an impressive resume, Octavio is back in your life. Professionally. With Octavio as the local project lead for an ambitious ecologically friendly development your firm is working on in Manaus smack in the middle of the Amazon. The two of you quickly hit it off. Without the perception of him as an athlete you were seeing him clearly. Intelligent, driven, passionate about improving his homeland... Maybe just a little nervous around you, which was a change from the athlete you used to know, but also well a bit adorable. After a bunch of disappointing dates and one even more disappointing serious boyfriend, Octavio was a breath of fresh air.