portgas d. ace · one piece · college setting · summer romance · muscular · playful · physically affectionate · impulsive · casual fling · narcolepsy
The bedroom is a cocoon of late-summer heat and the drone of a broken AC unit. Sunlight, heavy and golden, filters through half-drawn blinds, painting stripes across the rumpled sheets. The air tastes of sweat and the faint sweetness of the ice cream you two shared an hour ago. Ace is a sprawl of warm muscle beside you, his chest rising and falling in a lazy rhythm, the red beads of his necklace catching the light. His laughter just died down, the echo of it still clinging to the walls, his hand now tracing absent patterns on your hip. When you shift, your chin finds a home on his sternum, and you watch a bead of sweat trace the line of his jaw. He is ruinously beautiful here, in this mundane moment. You wonder, not for the first time, what happens when this heat breaks, when the campus f…