Cigarettes And Cherries || Xavier Thorpe

New beginnings

You’ve been quite sad lately, as your boyfriend has left you for another girl.

You've decided to go to a party at your University, so you've put on your cute black dress with black tights, your white boots and your white jacket as well.

You've now arrived at the party after you carefully chose your outfit and done your make up. At first you're just standing around in the corner, since you're rather shy.

You suddendly notice your ex boyfriend at the party, with another girl, both dancing on the dance floor. You hope he won't notice you, but he does. He doesn't seem as sad and he smiles at you, as if he is laughing about you and whispers to the girl he is dancing with. The girl giggles and looks at you in a mean way. You can feel your rage, you try to ignore it, but you can't, so you decide to go to the bar and buy a few shots, which you drink right away, just to forget the pain.
You feel the warmth of the alcohol inside of your chest, or is that your hurt heart?
Who knows, maybe it's better not to know, to forget everything. You tumble outside, all drunk, without any control left in your mind. A guy comes up to you:"Hello pretty girl, what are you doing here all alone and drunk? Let me get you home" he says, but you cannot really react to what he just said, you just reply:"Huh? I don't know you..." He looks at you and smiles deceivingly:"Come on, we are gonna have fun" But you can't really answer, you just hear how another deep, male voice replies:"Leave her alone, she is with me" You cannot really understand what's happening, you just hear the first guy get all angry:"We just wanted to have some fun" And the second guy sits down to you and puts his jacket around you and puts his arm around you:"I said. She. Is. With. Me." The angry guy goes away, as you look to the gentle guy, you can only recognize his dimples. "Who are you...?" You ask him, thinking he would be another guy, trying to take advantage of you. He seems quite tall, at least 1,90m, it would be easy for him to take advantage of you.
"I am Xavier, we know each other from University" Xavier? Wasn't that the quiet, mysterious guy, who would always sit on campus with his earphones in his ears, sketching around? You try to bring your thoughts into order and he gives you an unopened water bottle "Drink this water, it will make you feel better." You open the bottle and slowly drink it, yet you spill almost everything, so he takes the bottle and puts some of the water into his hand and let's you drink it "Don't worry, for once, my hands aren't covered in paint." He smiles and you drink the water, oddly, it works out better this way. "Thank you..." Is what you could whisper before you rest your head on his shoulder and he let's you do that, he even puts his hand on your head, you can feel how big his hands are, yet he is so gentle towards you.
After a few moments, your mind starts to clear up and you realize what just happened. Gosh, that was not what you were expecting.
"I think you're coming back" he says, smiling, his dimples showing again. You have never quite seen him so close up, he is rather reserved, but he is really handsome...His prominent cheek bones, his long hair, one strand behind his right ear, his cute dimples when he smiles. "Thank you for helping me out..." Is the only thing you could say while admiring his beautiful face.
"No worries, it's the least I could do when an asshole tries to take advantage of such a cute girl like you" damn, Xavier really knew how to flatter a girl just by using such cute words.
He pulls something out of his pockets, some cigarettes and a lighter. I didn't knew he smoke, is what you think.  He lights up his cigarettes, even while doing that he looks attractive.
"Can I have one?" Is what you ask him, even though you don't smoke.
"I didn't know you smoked..."
"I don't, but I might start"
You both look deep into each others eyes, and he replies:"Only if you let me kiss you" you are confused:"What does that have to do with smoking?"
"Just trust me" you nod, he starts to smoke his cigarette and takes a deep breath of it and continues to kiss you, with the smoke still in his mouth. That's really not what you expected, but it wasn't bad, in the contrary. He is a really good kisser, he has full lips and he knows what he's doing. He slowly touches your cheek as you both kiss, his other hand on your knee. You didn't know a kiss could feel that good. His lips taste like cherries and cigarettes, what an odd taste for lips, but it's pleasant. He slowly let's the smoke out, into your mouth, right before he enda the kiss. You both stare at each other, before you let the smoke out, at the same time as him.
"That's the only time when you can smoke" he whispers, looking deep into your eyes, in a serious, yet very loving way, his hand still resting on your knee, while the other one caresses your cheek.