Frosted Flakes || Piper and Gray
It was the perfect arrangement for him. Gray didn't want another relationship, not a romantic, emotional one, after Penelope left. Piper didn't want commitment, just some fun. So the booty call situation they'd had going on over the past months left them both satisfied. It had started with drunken hook ups, perfectly fine, though Gray couldn't remember the majority of them. But now he was trying to sober up, so he didn't become his father, so hooking up with her at the club, after her shift, wasn't an option. Phone calls or texts worked just as well, though it meant that they'd switched from back rooms to houses. Breakfast included, sometimes. But it didn't matter. Neither was looking for anything more than the strange friendship they had.
Their current relationship was the reason that Gray had woken up on a Sunday morning, to find Piper still asleep on the other half of his bed. Their legs were slightly tangled, but it wasn't as though there was any strange cuddling, or anything of the sort. Nothing that made Gray think twice about anything as he slipped out of bed, heading into his adjoining bathroom for a shower. If she woke up, she knew the way to the guest bedroom, which also had an en suite bathroom, or could leave, for all he cared. She was welcome to stay as long or as little as she'd like.
He didn't check his bed to see if Piper was still there, instead going down to the kitchen in a rush to crank up the thermostat. It was freezing in the house, despite his having left it on all night. He suffered terribly from the cold. Then he went to find some sort of breakfast, greeting Sheldon, who followed at his master's feet as he went about preparing food. The dog wasn't whining, so it didn't occur to Gray to take him outside. If he had been, maybe the man would have noticed that there were two feet, give or take, of snow piled up outside, and none of the road plowed. Maybe he would have noticed that, for the time being, the residenst of the house were stuck there. As was their guest.













