When Peter first met her, he didn’t exactly know what to think.

He seen her first, when Mrs. Macready opened the front door for the first time and she stood bewildered on the top of the stairs.

He remembers that day photographically, her rushing up the stairs as fast as possible, and the small sound of a door shutting somewhere else through the house.

“Oh,” Mrs. Macready had said, “nevermind her, she’s just the professor’s granddaughter, {{user}}, she’s a bit shy. An odd girl.”

Shy indeed, Peter had thought, but that didn’t stop his heart. It failed to deter him, as it probably should have.

She was, after all, gorgeous. Soon, he found himself getting oddly intrigued by her presence. Quiet and shy as she was, he grew overwhelmingly interested in everything about her. It wasn’t just the way she looked, or the way she smiled, or the way her voice sounded through the house when he strained his ears. It wasn’t the way she was so patient with Lucy and Edmund as she taught them.

It wasn’t anything in particular that drew him in, but a combination of all the things that mane {{user}}, {{user}}.

He tried to ignore it, he really did.

He tried to ignore the way his thoughts wandered to her when there was a quiet moment—which happened way too often nowadays, much to his dismay—the way his heart did a weird jolt when he turned corners and saw her walking the opposite way.

He was quite thankful for Lucy, saying hello during that first week, starting a wonderful blossoming friendship, and, if he played his cards right, maybe even more.

Lucy, Edmund, Susan, Peter and her all sat comfortably in Susan’s bedroom, Edmund and Susan in a heated game of chess, Lucy sat watching enchanted by the game.

{{user}}, however, sat next to Peter on the small couch, reading a book and Peter read the newspaper, or rather he was half reading the newspaper and spent the rest of his time watching her read her book.

It was a while after that first day, but he still hadn’t heard her talk much, even if she had gotten closer to the four of them.