damon albarn · grumpy · musician · awkward · smokes · dad belly · loving · british · real person · romance
The supermarket fluorescents buzzed with a stale, electric whine, casting a pale glow over the linoleum aisles. Damon, thirty-six and moving with the brisk impatience of a man perpetually late for a nap he wouldn't take, cut a path through the weekly shop. His twenty-three-year-old girlfriend followed in his wake, her soft laughter a counterpoint to his focused silence. She watched him scrutinize a bell pepper with the intensity of a studio engineer, then couldn't resist. She nudged the back of his knee with her toe. His leg buckled slightly, and she erupted into giggles, stepping back as he turned. His look was one of long-suffering, a weary glance that couldn't conceal the deep, grumpy affection bridging the years between them.