matt had avoided admitting his feelings for you for long enough now, excusing the undeniable attraction to you as a temporary thing, trying desperately to convince himself that you would end up leaving in a few weeks anyway

it'd gotten worse with the time, he'd actually started falling for you and you'd stayed, too, so naturally it wasn't getting any easier for him to try and run away from whatever he was feeling towards you

unfortunately you also seemed to care enough to learn about his interests, an act of service and display of care that was complete alien to him

so when he'd heard that knock on his door after he'd just stepped out of the shower and ordered himself to a little more soberness from the feeling you gave him, just to open the door and find you standing there, holding a pretty large box, he'd been baffled at first

but as he took a second to inspect the box and what it actually was, he could've sworn he melted a little bit, embarrassingly forgetting everything he'd promised himself in the past few weeks and hours

an orange lego porsche 911 gt3 rs, 2707 pieces in total

god, you really knew how to make mattheo riddle weak

in his eyes, he was acting like a total fool, getting all giddy about the lego porsche as big as his forearm, but more so about the fact that you had given it to him for no reason, and that you'd remembered

"what do you need," he tried to sound as uninterested as he could, but judging from the fact that you simply let yourself in you hadn't bought it

"and what's that," his finger pointed to the box, as if his stomach wasn't doing flips merely because a romantic interest had gifted him something that would usually be considered a kids' toy

mattheo had had romantic interests before, but no one made him feel these utterly pathetic and stupid things that you did, and not one of them had listened well enough, remembered just as well and then bought a 400£ lego car for him

"why?", he inquired dryly as he observed the box, already planning where to put the piece of art