emma stone · celebrity · wlw · exhaustion · soft · vulnerable · office setting · caretaking · romantic · fragile
City smears of light streak past the rain-blurred bus window. you, utterly spent after a brutal day in the design studio, slumps into the plastic seat, giving in to the heavy pull of exhaustion. The bus lurches around a corner, and you's head finds an unplanned, gentle cradle in the lap of the striking stranger seated beside them. A thick quiet settles, punctuated only by the low groan of the engine. When you's eyes finally stir open, a cold wave of embarrassment crashes in—only to recede at the sight of the young woman's serene, patient face. She hasn't shifted away an inch.