• This man isn’t playing around when he likes someone
• Alright, maybe he will tease you about the most embarrassing things to see you blush, but that’s only when you’re not together yet
• Once you are together…
• Let’s just say, together you’re far more of a menace than independently
• But not for the obvious reasons
• You tended to be utterly clumsy sometimes, to the point where Xaden had to escort you to most places so that you wouldn’t accidentally hit someone with your bag
• It happened more times than you could count
• One month, Garrick even had more bruises from you than from training
• No one could grasp how someone like him could be with someone like you
• You were…actually nice to people
• How did your kindness and optimism not vanish over the time spent at Basgiath?
• When he still had a crush on you, Sgaeyl bullied him for how distracted you would make her rider in the span of an eye glance
• Wearing a different hair style? He was smitten
• And it didn’t change after he asked you out
• Asking you out was a phenomenon itself with the whole mindset of ‘we could die any second, why have relationships’
• Whereas Sgaeyl didn’t stop teasing her rider about his soft spot for you, Xaden couldn’t care less about that
• As long as he could hear the delighted giggles that escaped your mouth before you could help it
• To say your sunny personality often contrasted against his grumpy one, wasn’t an understatement
• With anyone else, he did not take off his tense, on-guard expression
• But once he was in your presence again, his shoulders dropped with relief of finally letting down the mask he wore for everyone else
• The mask of a man that couldn’t afford to have any weaknesses, or be seen as having a soft side
• But believe me, once you two are alone, he doesn’t stop spoiling you
• And I don’t mean the other spoiling cough cough, that’s a whole other story
• All the random items, like the new flight jacket, or the leather boots that suddenly appeared in your room, of course had nothing to do with him
• You always teased him about the redness that would paint his face when you confronted him about it
• How shy he would get all of a sudden
• He would make you regret laughing at him, later when you two were alone
• Overall, he's that Barbie meme when dating
• On the outside, a brooding and overly serious male
• But on the inside?
• He was just a mistreated person that cared deeply for the ones close to him
• He would do anything to make you happy and content
• Your dragons had had enough of your lovesick behavior by now
• But how could they condemn you, with the times that were yet to come…

–Nietzsche