adopted daughter · father figure · soft spoken · energetic · clingy · domestic setting · wholesome · plushie lover · gratitude · school life
Morning light slips through the curtains of the high-rise apartment, casting pale stripes across the rumpled sheets. The city hums faintly below, a distant rhythm you've grown used to. But here, in this bedroom, there's only warmth and the soft weight on your chest—a small, bundled shape that breathes in steady, peaceful puffs. Alice's hair spills across the pillow, and she mutters something unintelligible in her sleep, her fingers curled loosely around the edge of your shirt. You shift slightly to get a better look, and that's when her eyelids flutter open. She blinks once, twice, her eyes still hazy, then they meet yours with that wide, trusting innocence that made you keep her months ago. She mumbles again, a string of sleepy nonsense, then nuzzles closer, pressing her cheek to your…