Of Bubble and Lace

“I licked it so it’s mine”

Agatha Christie themed afternoon tea at Tokyo Imperial Hotel with friend. 

At the end of summer, when Covid numbers were at a lower point, I took the risk to visit her in her new apartment and I quickly realized that, unlike when I’d spent the night at her house before, the couch wasn’t made up like a bed. She explained that since her new couch was so fancy and pink, I couldn’t possibly sleep on it, and so I needed to sleep in the bed with her. You know, out of necessity. I woke up with her snuggled around me in the middle of the night.

We’re dating now, and I genuinely think I’m going to marry her. Just the other day, though, I mentioned that if she hadn’t been weird about her fancy couch, I probably never would have like confessed my feelings. AND THEN she stood up, took the cushions off the fancy couch, UNFOLDED IT INTO A HIDE-A-BED, and said “I KNOW.”

A herd of deer relaxing by cherry blossom trees in Nara, Japan 

erik lehnsherr is the roommate from hell and charles can’t stand the bastard. he’s rude, he’s inconsiderate, he plays his angsty mutant protest music at unseemly levels. he comes and goes at odd hours and can’t be bothered to explain himself ever. he sits on top of the kitchen counter in just his boxers eating charles’ cereal in what is clearly a diabolical plan to drive charles insane. very well then if it’s a fight he wants it’s a fight he’ll get. charles almost pities the man. almost. 

charles xavier is quite possibly the most arrogant, self absorbed asshole  erik has ever met in his entire life. he is also the most attractive person erik has ever seen and erik fluctuates between wild desire and absolute scorn. within 15 minutes of meeting charles he decides that what charles desperately needs is a bit of chaos in his anal retentive, hyper organized life. luckily erik can provide chaos in abundance. erik smiles. this is gonna be fun. 

thus begins the Xavier-Lehnsherr War Of Mutual Aggression 

the rest of the dorm watches in terror and awe as they systematically destroy each other in increasingly elaborate and creative ways

the school’s yik yak/vine accounts blowing up with videos of these two losers 

erik’s pranks are very in your face while charles is more devious and underhanded like nailing posters with eriks face and number on them all over campus captioned: for a good time call ;) haha joke’s on u xavier now everyone wants to sleep with me 

 charles being quietly mad because damnit now everyone wants to sleep with lehnsherr if anyone is tapping that it should be me wait what

erik sending charles a glitter bomb in the mail and now charles is covered head to toe in blue and silver glitter and instead of looking silly he just looks vaguely ethereal and he’s shaking glitter out of his hair but its still stuck to his cheeks and his neck and for the next two weeks erik will spot little bits of glitter all over charles in weird places like his hipbones and behind his ear and why cant erik stop thinking about this 

charles asked for erik’s help getting a book off the top shelf and and erik  laughed at his taste and called him a nerd so charles shoved him into a table of nonfiction best-sellers and that’s how they both got banned from the school bookstore 

they mutually agree on a cease fire after that because anything that interferes with their education is unacceptable 

they are still aggressive and competitive always trying to out do each other grade wise even though they are going into completely different fields (erik is an engineering student and charles is majoring in genetics)  

even though they ‘hate’ each other they sign up for even more classes together so they can go on arguing more conveniently 

they have mutant studies/mutant politics together and yell at each other loudly and start in class debates and go completely off topic and get kicked out of class

erik and charles bitterly refusing to admit that they are no longer archenemies and are in fact friends 

 erik begrudgingly starting to appreciate charles organizational skills when charles alphabetized his record collection and now he actually knows where everything is

late night study sessions turned into late night chess games/bitching about the group project they are in because they are the only two competent people in the group  

erik getting pissed at a party because someone says something ableist about charles and erik immediately punching that person in the face charles scolding erik and saying he doesn't need anyone to protect him but still taking erik back home and patching him up 

charles and erik making dinner together and burning the food and just end up ordering chinese and charles is bitching about scientific inaccuracies on star trek and erik is oddly charmed 

erik stealing charles blankets while charles is out because they are warm and nice and charles comes home and finds him in a blanket fort/nest 

charles finding out the reason erik comes and goes at odd times is because he does volunteer shifts at at a center for at risk teens 

erik abruptly realizing that charles is actually not self centered at all he is actually the least selfish person ever when charles skips an important final because erik is sick and has no one to take care of him and charles is patting his hair and humming softly to him and Oh No

suddenly all erik can see is charles’ goodness: charles tutoring freshmen for free, charles volunteering constantly, charles happy and smiling and handing out flyers for local causes and charities and dear god how is it possible to be so completely wrong about a person 

 erik skyping his mother because mama i think i have feelings what are the feelings how do i kill them, erik’s mother immediately sending a thank you note to a very confused charles and inviting him to stay for ever hanukkah  

 meanwhile charles is grappling with the fact that erik is not a complete bastard no he’s only like 30% bastard 70% wonderful, incredible, draw droppingly gorgeous, and funny and clever and passionate and so sincere all his thoughts match his actions nobody’s like that everybody lies sometimes except for erik who is never anything less than brutally honest and it’s so, so very endearing even when it gets him into trouble and charles is starting to think that if erik is trouble well that’s exactly the kind of trouble he wants 

cue erik and charles drunkenly watching pride and prejudice and sitting too close together with erik’s head in charles lap and charles is stroking his hair and they are both achingly aware of certain parallels between themselves and the characters

“ I was wrong  I was entirely wrong about him…..he’s been a fool about so many things.. but then, so have I. You see, he and I are so similar.“

charles hands are trembling in erik’s hair and erik takes one turns it over and lays a kiss on his knuckles 

charles chuckles rueful and still a little uncertain “have i bewitched you then?” 

“So you’re going to read the bedtime story for me, Charles?”

I’ll post all the 50 Stony kisses 10 by 10 <3!

Stony kiss 10/50

Also, I’ve decided that I will redraw one of this kisses if I get at least 20 ko-fis donated to my ko-fi page. You can also choose wich one on your donation <3!

How Erik sees Charles.

so. i just read this manga called dare ga omae wo suki dato itta and of of the story trope is ‘you are my childhood crush i want to marry you’ (not exactly but you get the idea)