9 + Trevordeke :)
9. participating in their hobby even if it doesn’t personally interest you
“What are you doing?”
“What does it look like I’m doing?”
“I don’t know, Trevor, that’s why I asked.”
Trevor rolled his eyes with a small smile, glancing toward his boyfriend before looking down at the cardboard square on the table again. He hadn’t been working on the puzzle for very long, so only the edges were done, but it was relaxing. There was a kind of peace that came with putting together the picture on the boxes, with solving a puzzle and the sense of accomplishment that came along with it. “Have you ever done a puzzle before, Deke?”
“I don’t even know what this is, so take a guess.” Deke moved to sit down in the seat next to his, looking at the little pieces of colored cardboard with a frown. He didn’t understand it, but he was content, for a few moments, to watch his boyfriend’s fingers start to assemble them into... something.
“Well, a puzzle is just trying to make the picture on the box. All of these pieces go together in a certain way, and it’ll make the picture when it’s done.”
Deke stared at the scattered pieces across the table for a moment before meeting his gaze. “It seems kind of boring.”
Trevor shrugged, his smile soft while he fit a few more pieces together and connected them to the established edges. “Kind of. But it’s going to look really cool when it’s done. Wanna help?”
After another moment of hesitation, he nodded his head with a smile of his own and scanned the tabletop for pieces with similar colors.
( years later, when they had cat hair on their pajamas and rings on their fingers, trevor tore through wrapping paper on christmas morning to find three boxes inside, various pictures from their wedding day and trips taken together in collages and printed onto cardboard for repeated assembly )
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