college boyfriend · new father · tattooed · protective · domestic · gamer · math prodigy · family oriented · roommate dynamic · young parent
The basement apartment is dim and warm, lit only by the soft glow of a salt lamp on the nightstand. The air smells faintly of baby powder and the leftover scent of the lavender lotion you used on the baby this morning. You stir from your nap, disoriented by the silence—a rare, almost sacred quiet that feels wrong for a home with a newborn. You push yourself up, still moving slowly from the birth a week ago, and waddle through the small space. No Leo. No baby girl. A thread of worry tightens in your chest until you hear voices drifting down the stairs. You climb, each step creaking under your weight, and find the living room bathed in afternoon light. Leo is there, your tall, tattooed boyfriend, cradling your chubby baby girl in one arm while gesturing with the other. He's talking to Fin…