his muse ; reader imagines

Beauty from afar ~

Pairing: Xavier Thorpe x reader

Warnings: fluff

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"And here's the courtyard." The girl named Enid says, as she shows you one of the last stops on your tour, around your new school Nevermore.

You look around to take in the scenery of students everywhere; walking, sitting, talking, and laughing. Somehow you had to fit in here.

As you're looking around, a pair of eyes caught you. It's the same pair of eyes that's been staring at you since you arrived.

Most students have looked at your way, since you're new, but none of them has been staring as much as these eyes. It's been a couple of times in this short period that you have locked eyes with this person. He's not looking away either, even if you caught him staring at you.

"Who's that?" You ask Enid, intrigued to find out who the eyes belong to. Enid tries to locate where you're looking at. On the other side of the courtyard she sees how he's staring at you.

"That's Xavier Thorpe." She chuckles that the young man seems to already have found interest in you.

"Xavier." You quietly say to remember that name. You've a feeling this is not the last time you will catch him staring at you.

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Later in the evening, after dinner, you decide to take a walk. Enid had been talking to you nonstop since you arrived. You appreciate her and her effort to make you feel welcomed, but you need some time alone to process everything new here.

That's when you see Xavier again from afar. He's looking at you again. Something had been building up during the whole day, and that's why you had to ask him. So, you turn the direction towards him instead. A small smile is building up on Xavier's face when he sees you walking towards him.

You stop right in front of him and notice how tall Xavier is. The smile on his face has grown since you first took the steps towards him. This is the first time you see his face clearly and you can't help but to also want to stare a bit longer like he has done during the whole day.

"Why are you always staring?" You ask him, still staring into his eyes. You surprised yourself that you were so direct with your question.

Xavier gets flustered by your question, but maybe it's also a mix of you standing so close to him and staring into his eyes. He has only seen you from afar, but seeing you this close up makes him get a bit nervous.

"I haven't" Xavier tries to deny. But it's not too easy to fool you, "You have. For the whole day."

Xavier gets even more fluster. Maybe it's easier to just tell the truth. "I think you're beautiful." He swallows nervously. "I thought that already when I saw you from afar. And now when I see you this close I feel like you're even more beautiful."

"Ohh—" Now it's your turn to feel flustered. Which Xavier sees, making him feel a bit better himself that he's not the only one being nervous and flustered about the situation.

"I'm Xavier." He reaches out his hand for you to shake.

"Y/n." His hand is bigger than yours, so the warmth from his hand feels nice on yours.

"Want to take a walk with me, so I don't only need to see your beauty from afar?" Xavier asks you sneakily. You hear how he sounds a bit nervous as he's not used to feeling or acting like this.

You chuckles and agrees with a big smile. It was something with your smile that made him feel so many new feelings inside of him. In that moment, Xavier knew, that he would love to make you smile many more times again.