flowers + javi p for the valentine’s ask game 💐
oohhhhh honey YES javier peña does flowers. that man does. flowers.
because listen. the man's not exactly been a romantic. we know him, we love him. the man's spent most of his life swishing around as a big sexy emotionally unavailable slut.
which means when romance does come around - when the man who was never gonna fall in love falls all the way in - he's... not got a lot of practice. romantic gestures don't come easily; he rarely knows how to put to words what or how much you mean to him. but flowers, he knows people give flowers. his ma always lit up when his pops brought some home. turns out, he's a little old fashioned. likes to open doors for you, pulls out your chair at dinner whenever he can.
so the first time he wants to show up at your place with something more than his own needy hands, he shows up with tulips. roses felt cliche. daisies too casual. orchids are for funerals, or at least that's what he thought in the florist earlier tonight when he was kneading his own hips with his head hung, floundering for choice.
the whole climb up to your floor, he fiddles and chews the inside of his cheek. maybe all flowers are dated. maybe flowers are stupid. maybe he's a jackass for thinking you'd even like them, even want them from him.
on his way down your hallway, he debates ditching them at some random neighbor's front door. almost does, except you rip open the front door at the sound of approaching footsteps and catch him too soon, with the tulips still death-gripped in his sweaty hand and a furrowed look of doubt on his face.
lucky for him, you don't see his expression. your eyes pop round at the bundle in his arms, unmistakably shocked.
he perks at that, hurries the last of the way, and clears his throat with more nervousness than he'd like. "uh, hi," he manages - not much more.
and it's worth it, all his stressing about goddamn flowers and gestures and how badly he wants you all the fucking time, because your face breaks open in the biggest smile he's ever fucking seen before you tease, "I didn't take you for a valentine's day guy," nearly giddy with pleasure.
javier, of course, had no fucking clue that it's valentine's day. he just wanted to bring you something sweet - not that he says. but from then on he does get you flowers from time to time just to see that megawatt smile take you by surprise again and again and again.
valentines day asks (with the boys)
