you did it because he paid you for it – you told yourself. you tutored lorenzo berkshire because his grades were deteriorating, dropping lower and lower faster than the numbers on your bank account, hence he needed a tutor and you needed the money.

it’s been half an hour since you two started today’s study session and he hasn’t really been paying much attention, his gaze and mind occupied completely by your eyes, the way you talk so immensely immersed in the topic of astronomy, the was you tuck your hair behind your ears as you smile.

and he knows he should be paying attention, he really does, and he’s trying his best to do so. but he just doesn’t seem to be able to as he’s utterly, completely, absolutely mesmerised by you. it’s not the first time this happens though – he’s been looking at you with those big brown puppy eyes for a few weeks now and it’s always so hard for him to concentrate when he’s so amazed by your presence; almost as if we was in a trance.

he forces himself to pay attention though when he realizes you’ve been talking for half an hour but what he has no clue of is that you’ve only been revising what you two have talked about during the last session.

the weird thing about him is that once he starts paying attention to the topic, he’s drinking your words. talking about constellations? he tells you the entire story of perseus saving andromeda, from cassiopeia and cepheus to andromeda and perseus getting married, just like you had told him.

but he can’t help himself when you’re sitting there across him, explaining the study material oh-so-passionately, looking so mesmerizing.