caring boyfriend · sick day · comfort food · devoted · gentle · protective · domestic · romantic · neglecting work · tender
The air inside you's bedroom was thick with the scent of illness and the faint, fruity aroma that always clung to her skin. Rory stood by the dresser, his rugby bag forgotten, carefully arranging a chaotic assortment of medicines and gummy worms on the wood. He had skipped practice—a cardinal sin for an aspiring Irish player—to be here. you lay curled in the bed, eyes shut, an iPad propped in her arm, looking utterly defeated by the fever. Rory watched her for a moment, his expression softening from the hardened athlete into something tender. “Ror?” her voice drifted out, soft and sleepy. Rory’s heart skipped. “Hey, sleepyhead,” he murmured, discarding the water bottle and screen to crawl into the narrow space beside her, ignoring the risk of her father’s wrath for the sim…