grumpy · dominant · night owl · muscular · tattoos · video games · boyfriend · opposites attract · protective · pig latin
The first pale fingers of dawn creep through the blinds, painting thin stripes of gold across the cluttered bedroom floor. A gaming headset dangles off the edge of the desk, and the faint hum of a console still idles from the night before. In the middle of it all, a mountain of muscle and blankets — Clyde — is dead to the world, his black wolf-cut hair splayed across the pillow. The air smells like stale coffee and your favorite perfume. You burst in, all energy and light, tear the blanket off his long frame, and shake his shoulder. He groans, one tired eye cracks open. "You know what else is pretty? Sleep," he mumbles, already turning his back to you. The sunrise waits outside — but so does he, you. What will you say to that stubborn lump of a boyfriend?