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After grabbing his lunch tray, Xavier looked for you among the people in the dining hall. You two hadn’t had any classes together for the whole morning and he was clingy, immediately smiling when he found you on a table with Ajax and Divina. As he walked over to you, he saw how Ajax kept talking while you shook your hand, an amused smile on your lips. Divina was just switching her clear eyes from you to Ajax, seemingly delighted by whatever was going on between you two.

Your words became more understandable as Xavier got closer to you, nos and shut ups being most of the things you were able to say, Ajax talking too fast to let him understand what he was saying. Xavier didn’t see how Divina nudged Ajax with her elbow when she saw him coming over, but he noticed how Ajax glanced at him and stopped talking while one of his snakes escaped out of his beanie, before he could push it right back inside.

“You’re annoying.” You said with a sigh, prompting Ajax to look right back at you as Xavier put his lunch tray next to yours on the table.

“Look, Y/N!” Ajax squeaked, a high-pitched tone of voice that wasn’t yours nor his coming out of his lips. Divina chuckled under her breath. “It’s Fletcher Shears!”

Rolling your eyes, you scoffed under your breath, but a little smirk showed in your face. Xavier raised an eyebrow, waiting for Ajax to explain his joke while he sat down next to you, but the Gorgon just turned to the Siren and they laughed rather quietly, ignoring him.

“Who’s Fletcher Shears?”

“No one, babe.” You retorted, turning your hand to steal a kiss from him, which he was actually happy about. Still, Xavier narrowed his pretty eyes at you when you leaned back, not finding your answer satisfactory.

Ajax chuckled again. “Oh, he’s just a singer who Y/N finds incredibly handsome and talented.” He said, his fake nonchalant voice taunting you, as Divina laughed harder now.

“But he is!”

“Wait, but is that guy a normie?” Xavier let the arm he had put around your shoulders fall as he leaned into the table, like it was only him and Ajax. You held back from slapping yourself on the forehead.

“Yeah. Apparently he’s a famous singer, from a band called… The Backyard?”

“The Garden.” You corrected quickly, falling into Ajax’s trap as he laughed at the attention you were putting to the conversation. Xavier watched you, amused by the irritation in your face. “Ajax, I’m gonna…”

Xavier nudged you with his elbow, interrupting you. “Wait, so you like that guy?”

“I mean…”

“Better than me?” He asked, acting like he had been hurt in his ego — too big sometimes, you noticed, although it was more an act than anything — while taking a pale hand to his chest, where his heart was supposed to be. “I can’t believe it—”

“Here!”

The three of you turned to Divina, who had previously taken her phone from her pocket and had searched for Fletcher Shears’ Instagram, as you watched slightly mortified. Her phone was firstly grabbed by Ajax, who took a glance at the pictures, then at Xavier and you, back at the pictures, and again to Xavier before he started laughing again — his contagious laughter inducing Divina into chuckling with him as well.

“Lemme see!” Xavier said, leaning over to snatch the phone from Ajax’s hands.

His eyes scrutinized the man in the pics, and slowly his brows started raising as an idea boiled in his mind. You recognized the teasing glimmer on the hazel ocean, which made you cover your face in frustration and Ajax and Divina burst out in laughter once again.

“He looks like me.” He stated, although it sounded kind of like a question, because Xavier raised his head to find confirmation in the other two. Before you could open your mouth and start complaining, they nodded. “He looks like me!”

Your voice came out way higher than you had expected. “No he doesn’t!”

Xavier passed the phone back to Divina, who shook her head. “Y/N, they’re so alike. Just admit you’re down bad for Xavier.”

A funny pout came into your mouth as her statement got you slightly fluttered, making you fidget with your uniform’s jacket’s sleeves, holding back an embarrassed smile that made Xavier exclaim a loud ‘Awww’. His arm came back to your shoulders, pulling you closer to him, but you ignored him and grabbed your cutlery to avoid him.

“It’s alright, babe, you can say it.” Xavier laughed, his voice closer to your ear than you imagined, making shivers run up and down your spine — good shivers.

Still slightly laughing, Ajax and Divina grabbed their lunch trays, empty, and got up from the table, only waving goodbye at Xavier as you were still staring at your unfinished food in the lunch tray, holding back your smile.

“You’re just built similarly.” You finally said when they weren’t there anymore, when Xavier delicately caught your chin with his artist fingers. He was still smiling in that damn way, the one that made you feel all types of fuzzy feelings.

Xavier hummed while brushing his thumb against your skin, softly so he wouldn’t hurt you — not like he ever would. “I think it’s cute.” He whispered, like he was telling you a secret. “That you’re so in love with me that you now only crush over people who look like me.”

“Oh, you did not—” You gasped, laughter filling your own interruption, making you shake your head.