Chapters from Xavier's perspective:
from the forum story (may require scrolling down the page):
(Xavier's birth)
from the blog:
Xavier's history:
First of all, I'm really falling in love with him. He's very photogenic. I love his expressions. He's the perfect combination of John and Elena. So much so that eventually I want the two of them to have another child, and I'm going to take steps to make it a girl.
Xavier was born into a happy family. He has an adoring older sister in Marie. For Marie, Xavier, or X-man as she likes to call him, is the first real family she's ever had. Unfortunately, he has no memory of this happy family he was born into. His mother and father divorced when he was just a toddler.
For most of his childhood, his father, John, was always sad. He could tell his father tried his hardest to hide it from him, but he could tell nonetheless. So, Xavier tried very, very hard to make him not have to be sad about anything that would be his fault. While he was with his father, this thought consumed him to the point of becoming neurotic about it. Unfortunately, this neurotic tendency spilled over into other areas of his life as well.
Xavier showed artistic promise at a very young age. At the time, neither John nor Elena knew where it came from. They knew almost nothing about Elena's birth parents, and John was never very sure about his father's side of the family. It was his best friend, Lee, that found Marcelo Castillo, a famous painter, on the internet, and the two of them wondered if this could be his maternal grandfather. As it turns out, he is! or was, should I say.
For most of his childhood, Xavier paints. He hates most of his work, but he keeps trying - the drive in him to do better never ceasing. When his parents get remarried, he's gifted with his own room (he used to have to share with his once-step-brother, Demarco Turner), and he turns it into an art studio. While he was still a child, he met Lee Rose in art class. He was thrilled to finally have someone to talk with about things that interested him. He felt she really understood him.
I'll take this moment to tell about a scary time in his childhood. One day at school when he went to use the restroom, he was kidnapped! His mother had attracted the attention of a hardened criminal, Trent White, or "Laurie" as he is sometimes called (especially by Elena). Laurie wanted to abduct Elena as a way of getting back at both her and John for getting his step-brother (that no one knew was his step-brother), Tate Williams, locked away. However, Laurie couldn't get near Elena once John suspected him of killing Greg Turner. Laurie used Xavier as bait to get Elena to leave the house. This was terrifying for Xavier, and he blames himself for the fact that Elena fled the house to go and save him. He'd always watched Marie and John in the backyard as John taught Marie sim fu. He wished he'd taken the time to learn it. Maybe then he'd not have gotten kidnapped, or at least he'd have been able to get away.
After this ordeal, Lee is the only one he confides in about how guilty he feels. She does her best to help him through it, but the guilt still occasionally hits him. This confidence only brings them closer, and Lee begins to realize she's falling in love with him. He remains clueless as to how she feels for many years.
As they became teens, Lee became increasingly aggravated that Xavier didn't catch on that she was thinking of him as more than a friend. She got even more frustrated when she'd catch little things that should clue him in to the fact that he perhaps was thinking of her as more than a friend. She began to think that he'll remain clueless forever, but then one day he decided to paint her without her knowing. When she saw the painting, she was stunned. She'd had no idea that he understood her as well as he did. It showed in the painting. The realization that she was the first real person he'd ever painted impressed heavily upon her as well. She knew Xavier existed in a world of paintings, and she saw that she had been officially welcomed into his world. When she saw how nervous he was when he showed her what he'd done, she knew she totally loved him, and she threw her arms around his neck in an unexpected hug.
That hug was the first clue for Xavier that perhaps Lee was more than just a friend. She convinced him to keep the painting instead of give it to her, and after a few moments, he realized how happy that made him. Still, the painting was a little impressionistic and he wanted a more realistic picture of her, so he printed out a photograph of her that he'd taken that day and put it in a frame on his desk. When Lee saw the photograph, he didn't understand why she looked like she was going to climb the walls, aggravated about something. It finally clicked in his mind when she unexpectedly kissed him. He described it as the finale of a fireworks show going off in his head, once the shock wore off that is. When, after the kiss, he saw that she was upset and embarrassed, he knew he had to act fast or he could possibly lose what had been in front of him this whole time, a budding romance. Not well practiced at expressing romantic feelings, he catches her and kisses her even more passionately than she kissed him before she had a chance to walk out.
That brings us up to just before update 103. :)
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