arescere ✿ xavier thorpe

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41 - tricked trips

peter sat in his room, on his desk. his book open before him as he scribbled away. his writings had grown more strange, the writing growing more scruffy. his hand twitching. the window was open. the sky was beginning to grow dark. his stomach growled. he had missed dinner. when there was a sharp knock at the door. he looks over to his clock. 19.57. it must be xavier being escorted back from his art studio. so he gets up. the chair scrapping along wood as he goes to the door. only opening it to find two girls stood there. one smiling, one not. one monochrome and one pastel.

"hello." enid grins, waving to the boy. he ends at her before looking to wednesday.

"what now?" he questions, her face lights up in mischief.

"we're going out, care to join?" she asks, enid didn't mind peter coming along to the girls birthday getaway. he was cute, and kind. so in her books, if wednesday liked him. she would help.

"come in." he speaks, groaning softly as he swings the door open. making sure to check the dorm mother wasn't trolling the corridor. the two girls rush inside. and enid finds herself glancing around. the room looked like when she had expected of the two boys. one side was covered in drawings and sketches. the other had passages and writings stuck to walls. books stacked high and pens everywhere. xavier clothes were currently messily stacked on his desk while peter's were all folded away. she notices on peter's side of the room,there is tons of plants. she questions if he has a plant life ability, after all she had neer wondered his strange ability. maybe he was vampire, would explained the cool tone. but she does notice how the string of pearls on his desk seems to fade in colour lightly as he steps to it. the two girls sit on the bed as he moves around them. the bed is soft. definitely the sheets, the actresses in the school were like rocks. the sheets were a beatiful brown. she watches as he opens his drawer picking clothes out before disappearing into the bathroom.

"do you like peter?" enid questions softly to wednesday. the girl heads to her. like she was a doll. like she didn't have any bones in her neck at all. disgust spread on her features. and enids smile falls.

"he likes xavier." wednesday has to hiss at the girl. hoping peter cant hear them in the bathroom. and then enid's eyes light up again. looking at the room the two worked well together. she gets it.

"what are we doing?" peter asks as he steps out of the bathroom. he's wearing baggy khaki trousers with a white t shirt scream printed t shirt that seemingly shallows his frame. he looks to wednesday, because he knows whatever she convinced enid they were doing. they weren't doing that.

the car awaited outside the nevermore gates, the lights dead but they could see the shadow of a boy in the front as they got in. tyler had left the doors unlocked so in the three climbed. wednesday climbing in the front whilst both peter and enid got in the back.

"wait, he's our uber driver?" enid questioned, looking at the two in the front of the car.

"i thought we were going on a date?" a smile growing on peter's face, which tyler noticed fro his mirror. only then did he realise what was going on. he had been tricked by wednesday addams once more.

"i thought this was a girls night out." enid cries.

"but peter's here." tyler also cries, if this were a girls thing. why was peter there? why was peter always there? everywhere all at once.

"there's been a change of plans." wednesday speaks, her eyes trained forwards on the dirt path up to the school. not really caring what the two were bickering about.

"whats up with the weird matching hoodie scarf things." tyler speaks motioning to the hooded scarfs on the girls heads.

"don't ask, just drive." peter spits, he too were sick of the two. just wanting to get on with whatever they were doing so he could go back to bed. tyler nods, turning to face the road. starting the car and rolling away as xavier thorpe opened the door to his room. holding a bouquet of wildflowers that had been growing around his art studio. but when he entered the room, after mustering his pride. he found the room empty. a note pinned on xavier's board.

'gone out with wednesday.'

"great, fucking fantastic." he spits. throwing the flowers on his desk. why was peter always with wednesday now? was he ignoring him? was it because of the paintings?

"seriously? you wanna go in there? this place is creepy af." enid questions as he looks up at the gate before them. the mist giving it almost a glow as they shined their flashlights upon the metal.

"i know. i didn't want to celebrate my birthday by going to dinner or a surprise party." wednesday grins. shuffling through her pockets to pull out a lock pick.

"i wish i had my headphones."petermumbles, his grip tightening on his torch as the gates creak. the mist seemingly following in the actions of the gate. opening u the dirt path where the mayors car tracks still remain. he wondered what he'd be listening too. this moment felt very 80's slasher summer camp, so probably carry on wayward son. wednesday begins walking up the path, peter shrugging his shoulders as he follows.

"you guys coming" he questions turning back to the tricked two who stood dumbly at the gates still. the pair turn to look at one another, before nodding. scrambling to follow the two up towards the house which was barely visible in torchlight.