f a m i l i a r i t y. - [fierrochase]

four 🐍

ALEX ;

"Sam, stop." She said as she looked at her sister, her usual hijab was actually missing this time, as Alex noticed. Samirah's brown hair was hanging loosely from a braid, she had explained earlier that she accidentally lost her hijab while she was traveling with her betrothed, Amir.

Right now, the brown-haired girl was in Alex's apartment. She had told her stories about her travels with Amir Fadlan. Sam was a blushing mess while talking about the love of her life, which pretty much baffled Alex to a laughing mess. Well, that was until Sam noticed the painting she had left for display. Yeah, she forgot about that quickly made portrait of Magnus Chase smiling. Sam teased her nonstop.

"Are you and him dating?" Sam asked as a mischievous smile crept on her face. Alex just cringed and tried explaining in her tongue-tied state, making Sam more amused.

"It's not what you think, okay?" Alex groaned, wrapping herself in blankets she brought out for san since they were watching a movie on the couch. It was still cold outside, and Sam just hitched a visit since she was free today. "It's—I, umm... I painted that while I was half-asleep." She admitted as she looked down on her foot again, socks were around her ankles as she wiggled them for distraction.

"What?" Sam asked. "Magnus is really great, honestly. We're kinda close, he's Amir's kinda bro so yeah." The brunette explained as she took sips on her coffee mug, relenting on why she had made Alex make her coffee. "Did you and him meet? Oh my, tell me you did."

Alex was kind of hesitating, but she ended up telling Sam about the whole mug-throwing thing. Geez, that was crazy. Alex wanted to erase that happening in the face of the universe and the forces of the memories that raveled on whenever tapped by the nostalgic presences of a person. She didn't want to get remembered by Magnus, for example when the boy ever drinks coffee and see a mug, and just remembers: Oh wow, my girlfriend threw me a mug once.

     Wait. No! Where did the girlfriend come from? Alex thought and she knew she sported quite a blush since her sister moved closer to her with a look at her face.

      "Why are you blushing? You don't normally blush? Is it because of Magnus?" Sam smirked at her as if she knew that Magnus Chase was her sister's weakness. Which, as of now, it really was.

     Alex Fierro barely falls for anybody. Anybody at all! Since she and Sam got separated when they were young, and the sins of her father was put on her shoulders to carry, she forgot about liking guys or girls, or just the thought of falling for someone. She was too burdened with her father's crap that she felt as if she wasn't herself, that slowly, she was becoming who she resented the most—her father. But she came to realizations and she became trans, and gender fluid. She knows what she was doing, and that was what made her contented with what she, and who she was. After her dad found out about this, he quickly kicked her out. She went to Sam, of course, who offered her to live with her.

     Alex didn't like the thought of living under someone else's roof. Even if it was her sister's. Sure, she was welcomed there, but what she really wanted was to be free. So after some pottery, and art, she tried selling her masterpieces—even took up tutoring jobs for children who liked art (although she had so less patience for children, still it was cute to her for kids to love art and try to master it at a young age). She gained enough money to get a place of her own, but she was nomad. She didn't settle for one place until winter break, and here she was. This was going to be her permanent—if necessary—home until she's done with college, possibly longer.

     "No, shut up." Alex said in a deadpanned tone, not wanting to explain herself more to her sister. She ended up munching on her cookies, one she bought at the café across the street. She instantly remembered the cookies she gave to Magnus. And yeah, she decided she pretty much needed to kindly forget about the blond.

    Sam stayed there, not pointed out that Alex was blushing and smiling all by herself again. It wasn't natural for the green-haired to be in love, as stated earlier, but Sam loved the idea. She was pretty much going to give Blitzen and Hearthstone a call later. Oh, heck yeah. Set them up, why not? Sam thought of many things, but then again, why not let them find their own way?

     "You know, I kinda read some of his poems." Alex said out of the blue. Sam just titled her head in a questioning way, and hummed. "They were really great, actually."

     "What was the piece you've read?" Sam asked and Alex tried to remember was piece that was. She didn't see a title at all.

      "I think it's untitled." She guessed and Sam just nodded. She remembered the words that were scribbled on the pages of stationary, all scattered across his desk. She smiled, remembering all those poems there. She never actually appreciate poetry the way normal people do, but then again, when it was Magnus Chase's poetry, it was a whole different story.

Alex wasn't an expert with feelings, but she knew those words contained more than just poetic nature. She knew those words didn't just pop on his mind and say oh wow lemme write that —no. She sensed passion in those words, she sensed the feelings coursing through every syllable she read yesterday. And even though it was vague, she felt as if she knew Magnus so well. By how she made him laugh earlier, or by the way he used sarcasm on him. It was nice to see him like that, being close to her.

"Well, that's nice. Usually, his untitled works are written for or based on a person." Sam said. Alex grew anxious about that. Did Magnus Chase like somebody? A girl, probably, that actually brought light to his life? Did someone make him smile and have fun? She remembered masses of words, and she knew those words had more meaning to it than just poetry, and she remembered the things that caught her off-guard while reading it. But one question stayed in her mind—was someone already holding Magnus Chase's heart?

Alex gulped, "Okay then."