well, ames is a pre-teen in every sense of the word, so i don't know that anyone would be happy to hang out with her lately, but depending on how far back we take these two, he def would have seen her grow up and everything she and maison had gone through. also from what you've said above, he and maison sound a lot alike, athletic with a definite nerdy side, so they would have probably got on well from the get go