Fluffy ABC: Ernest Sinclaire & Hayley Parker
Author’s Notes:
You can find the template here!
Ernest Sinclaire belongs to Pixelberry Studios. I only own my OC
English is not my first language, so please forgive any typos or grammatical mistakes
I dare @missameliep to make her own ABC of the couple of her choice
TW: Nothing, pure fluff!
A – Anger (What was their first fight about? Any big or recurring arguments?)
Their first fight ever was when they moved in together, years before their marriage. Though they do not argue oft, their arguments can be intense, especially in Hayley’s part, but she is working on it.
Coming back to the argument: Ernest had accidentally clicked on a private file of Hayley and she got really angry at him, ending with her going to Briar’s place over the weekend and not talking to him over that time until he brought her favourite meal and had a civil conversation over dinner while Briar went out with Edmund. They agreed on improving their communication skills, especially in Ernest’s part.
B – Best (What would they say is the other’s best trait?)
Hayley thinks that Ernest’s golden and sincere heart is his best trait: how he just wants to help and expects nothing in return and does it because. It melts her heart and reminds her why she fell in love with him in first place.
As for Ernest, he just admires highly her perseverance and resilience. Since she was a child, she always managed to shine even in her worst times, not giving a damn about what others had to say about her. She always went through the day and made everyone’s lives bearable when hers was just a living hell.
C – Camera (How do they document their relationships? Who likes to take pictures? Or videos?)
Hayley shares a lot of photos about her life, always showing his fun side and his tender side. She is a woman who loves to show off her fantastic husband, and that increased when Alaska was born.
While Ernest has more mementos, he never posts them. Hell, he barely opens the apps on it! He only makes calls and texts and e-mails, like he were back in the 00s. He has a folder full of Alaska’s photos and videos of her, and always watches some of them when he’s feeling down or just misses his little princess. He also has a folder full of Hayley doing things: working, sleeping, laughing, eating, smiling at her baby bump, etc. He always smiles at those photos.
D – Dates (What are their dates like?)
Their dates are minimalistic, very few times they go somewhere lavish: Ernest loves to bring her food to her room and cover her with kisses and love, or go to libraries to buy books or at their favourite bar and have a drink while they laugh off things. He’s a Netflix and Chill guy too, though his favourite date spot is deep into Ledford Park territory, where he builds a picnic and ends up with Hayley on his lap, munching berries that his gardener grows and enjoy the breeze and the sun hitting his alluring wife.
E – Early (What was the first month of dating like?)
Hayley was a bit awkward at first: she hesitated a bit when touching him and didn’t dare to talk about things that would give him heart palpitations, thinking that he’d recoil and leave her. She talked about not-too-deep topics and was very closed off and scared.
Meanwhile, Ernest was really shy and helplessly whipped. He wished to touch her and shower her with the love she lacked in her life, but was scared of scaring her off or doing it wrong. He didn’t dare to ask her too personal questions and had a hard time opening up to her.
F – Friends (How is their relationship with each other’s group of friends?)
They share their group friend, that’s how they found each other. On Hayley’s part of the group, they all liked to tease Ernest and prank him, while the boys were a bit scared of Hayley, only Bart knew that she was in fact an angel. But now the hang out with them most of the time, when they’re not swamped on work and their kids.
G – Gifts (Do they like giving each other gifts? What kind?)
Ernest is a thoughtful man. He gives something of significant importance and that leaves a message, though he oft spoils his wife to let her know in his own way that he’s constantly thinking of her, that she misses her, loves her, wants her soon…
Hayley has a hard time choosing presents. She’s more of actions, but she can gift really nice things. Growing up in Spain, she learned to give small details: buy him something he will need, take him to a place he used to go as a child/ always wanted to go, small handwritten cards wishing him luck for today, a tie…
H – Hugs (All things involving hugs)
Ernest likes to hug Hayley from the behind when she’s frowning or pouting, hug her waist while talking to her, side-hugs, etc. He just loves to get lost on her warmth. He also finds her very cuddly and feels like home, being on her arms.
As for Hayley, she likes hugging him by his hips and rest her chin on his chest, climb on top of him and hug him from the shoulders, hug him by placing his head on her bust or legs if he’s lying, to hug him while he types rapidly the keyboard, to hug him when she’s on his lap, when they cuddle at night, … she likes to hug him in general. Even more than kiss him: he’s so warm and comforting, she falls easily asleep if she’s laying on his chest and he traces ghosts on her back absently.
I – Inside Jokes (Do they have any?)
They roast each other all the time. It shows their connection to each other and an intimacy that they show more oft. Hayley always has the best roasts for him, which had made him laugh out loud once or twice, though Ernest has too a humour that makes his wife laugh in a rather unholy way.
Hayley’s best insult to him is ‘Walking Mummy’ because of their age gap. He chortles and chuckles sometimes at it.
As for Ernest, he doesn’t have that kind of word for her, but he does enjoy teasing her bad temper and how lewd she can be. That normally ends with a pillow thrown to his head and a genuine laugh of his.
J – Jealousy (Who gets jealous easier? How do they show their jealousy?)
Ernest used to get jealous when Hayley was younger—especially under 18. He wouldn’t dare show it, but icy glares that could frost the hottest spot of the world were thrown at her many suitors, and threats were also thrown, many times he watched them make out as he grunted or rolled his eyes, commenting that she could do much better. When he grew up and got more experience, he realised how childish it was of him and instead became envious: wishing he could kiss her like that, wishing that he could have his hand casually on her hip, wishing that he could be the one who she first sees in the morning—he could never believe that years later, he’d become that man he fantasised to be for so long.
As for Hayley, she used to be jealous too, though she was most of the time in denial: watching him being whipped by those women, always with them, a small smile on his face, looking at her instead of her, etc. She realised it too late and dared not to spare another thought. Her jealousy evolved too on envy: wishing to be them, to be with him, to have him for her and do normal things with him without being afraid of being shamed because of the age gap issue.
K – Kiss (How do they kiss? Who usually initiates?)
Ernest loves to kiss his wife whenever he can: in the morning, where he devours her and makes her giggle groggily, when he’s headed to work and kisses her forehead, as a greeting when she comes back from work, lifting her off the floor and have better access to her lips, the ones that can lead to more, kiss her cheek, her forehead, her hair while smelling the familiar scent of mint and expensive shampoo, kissing her growing belly, her imperfections, her body… when he has a chance of having his hands on her, he cannot help himself: he just loves his wife dearly and wishes to show her that he loves her.
As for Hayley, she doesn’t kiss him as much as he kisses her, but her kisses are just as genuine: teasing one, trying to have her way with him, sitting on his lap and kissing him to lead him to bed, to show him that she missed him, his cheek, where she usually leaves a mark of lipstick that he never wipes off, before drifting to sleep, tiptoeing to kiss him deeper, to climb behind his back and kiss his cheek… she does it both in private and publicly and shamelessly, not afraid of showing that she loves her husband.
Here’s a fic of how their first kiss was!
L – Love (How do they first say those three words?)
There’s a fic where they say each other those words!
But deep in a relationship, they say it when they both feel like it’s genuine. They don’t like to say it just to say it: they say it to lift each other up, to cheer them up, to show them how much they love each other. They aren’t the life of the party, but their words are always genuine.
M – Movies (What kinds of movies do they watch together? Is it a regular Netflix ritual?)
They are both busy people, but always try to have a day off together. Hayley’s guilty pleasure is period dramas and Ernest rants about inaccuracies or the exaggeration of TV. Hayley watches him with a knowing smile on her face, knowing that he is himself after a long day pretending.
Hayley’s secret is musicals: she loves Les Miserables and Ernest loves Moulin Rogue and their favourite as a couple is Hamilton. They sing the songs when travelling to Moorfield, after leaving the busy London roads behind, a smile on their faces as their best duets come out while one of them drives. Only their friend group know of these shenanigans of theirs and oft tease them about it.
N – Nicknames (Things they call each other)
Ernest calls Hayley ‘love’ or ‘my shining dove’ or when the two of them are being rather intimate, ‘cara mia’. Ernest’s ancestors are part Italian and his mother insisted in, at least, knowing the basics of Italian and Classic Latin.
Hayley calls Ernest ‘mi amor’, ‘mi vida’, and ‘mon trèsor’ when they’re alone and tangled with each other. Hayley’s a well-known multilingual woman: she knows Italian, Spanish, Greek, German, a bit of Turkish and Mandarin. Currently she’s learning Braille and English Sign Language.
O – One (Tell us about the moment they realized they were with the one.)
Ernest knew it sooner than Hayley. He was like 21 when he realised. It all happened very suddenly, but his heart was certain: when he danced with her at that club, her amused smile on her face, her hands around him, just the two of us as she sang out loud The Nights by Avicii, just the two of them in that moment, enjoying her company, his heart sang it for him: his greatest love was and had always been Hayley Jane Parker.
Hayley realised it in one of their dates pre-dating era. Her period had been delayed and took the chance to go out with him. In the sudden moment of a shared moment, the blood rushed to her pants and she apologized a billion times for screwing it when he offered his jacket, not minding if it’d be covered of her blood with her insides in it and bought her some pads before taking her home and spoiling her with whatever she wanted and watched a movie: he, on his tailored suit and she, on her ridiculous pyjamas that she didn’t prepare and watched Matilda together. That moment, in one of the funniest parts of the movie, she knew that she loved Ernest Sinclaire like she had never done before, and never wanted to be parted from him again. Not if she could help it.
P – Pizza (What is their favourite food to eat together?)
They love to eat all kind of Italian, but their favourite is tiramisu. They both love sweets and they eat it when they’re celebrating something, between pecks and spoonful’s to each other.
For Hayley’s part, she loves tzatziki, a Greek dish that even Ernest has grown to like. They eat it when they need energy and always cook it together.
Q – Quit (Do they break up? Almost break up? What happened?)
They almost divorce in the series, though I will not say why. You can read it instead here!
R – Rainy Days (How do they comfort each other on dark days?)
Ernest loves to have his wife on his bed, either getting up to mischief or lying together, watching their comfort movie –Dead Poets Society—or reading, having some time to themselves.
S – Soft (Something one of them did that turned the other into absolute mush)
Hayley’s irresistible puppy eye dog makes him go all soft and obliges to do anything she wishes of him. He cannot just resist his alluring wife.
As for Hayley, she goes soft every time he’s being kind to someone –or later on when he’s with their baby daughter, Alaska. How he laughs carefree, talks to her and behaves with her, like the absolutely kind of father whose daughter has him wrapped around her little finger.
T – Texting (Do they text each other a lot? What do they usually talk about over the phone?)
Hayley is the one who texts him the most. Ernest rarely uses his phone: he uses more his laptop and iPad for work and nothing else. She isn’t pedantic about emojis, but she has her signature emojis.
U – Unique (Tell us about some of their odd habits that surprised one another.)
Ernest’s good sparring abilities surprised Hayley greatly: she knew that he was able to defend himself, but never expected from him to be just as easy to pin her against the floor.
As for Hayley, Ernest was surprised in carefree she could be. He always thought her taciturn and that anyone could barely make her smile, but he had found that when she’s comfortable enough, she can be the funniest woman to be around. He had laughed at her cutting jokes and great imitations of other people, especially snooty men from the Parliament.
V – Vanity (Something they’re proud of in themselves and their partner)
Ernest is very proud at how adaptable Hayley is in everything: better than him, and how athletic and well-shaped she is unlike some people. She has a routine that matches his and often run together alongside Hyde Park before heading to work: they also do laps and other exhaustive routines.
Hayley is proud of how of a natural father he is: nurturing, patient, understanding, confident, loving… she always knew that he’d be a great father—she never expected that he’d father her own children until she walked down the aisle towards him, knowing that she wanted that life with him and no one else.
W – Wedding (Tell us about your wedding head canon if they’ve gotten that far. Or if not, have they talked about it?)
You can read about their wedding and proposal here and here!
X – X (Something they hate about the other)
There’s nothing Ernest hates about his wife. Perhaps annoys him, but never hate. He cannot bring himself to hate her, it’s impossible. But he does find annoying at how very little filter she has when talking and expressing things.
As for Hayley, there are things that annoy her too, but like her husband, she cannot bring herself to actually hate him; it’s against her nature. But if something makes her scoff, it’s how soft he is and how he allows people to step all over him: especially the ones who had hurt him. All because he’s awfully polite. She had scolded him for being so polite and that he should tell people to fuck off more often.
Y – Youtube (What are they like online? Do they post about their relationship constantly?)
Hayley doesn’t post too much: a shot of their hands, or him looking away or barely seeing his face and is not very much of a social media user, but she is handier than her husband’s old soul. But she rarely posts and if she does, she always consults her husband.
As for Ernest, he barely has any social media; he doesn’t need them. He has like, three photos on his profile and two of them are of Hayley. He only has Goodreads, WhatsApp, Instagram and Candy Crush to entertain himself.
Z – Zoo (Are they into animals? Do they want pets? What kind?)
Hayley loves animals! Though she doesn’t seem herself capable of taking care of one, she loves to pet them and animals love her.
As for Ernest, he likes some of them. He doesn’t like venomous ones or the kind that hurt people.
