He’d been laying there for a while now listening to the tap-tap-tapping of her typing. Whether or not she was caught up in a story or an essay, he couldn’t tell which one for sure. What he could tell was that she was engrossed, and from where her desk was pushed near the sofa, he could only glance at her by leaning back his head, where copper red locks sprawled over the arm rest as he watched quietly from upside-down. Were she to turn then just a notch, she could’ve peeked from up above him and looked straight down into his book, noticing he was again being a massive nerd re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring. But still, the volume hung too idly in his hold—Horia was tired of reading, and he was gazing now at her.
Ah, it never was a shock to see Vivian don clothes this loose. The sweater worn was much too large to fit her, a knitted cosy-looking thing so roomy it likely could’ve held them both. And she hardly seemed to notice as she typed and typed away, the collar of it sliding down low on her shoulder to reveal a beauty mark or two so tiny on her skin. For a second his eye traced thoughtlessly along her collarbone just beneath the choker’s key, lingering, too distracted to even notice if she somehow were to see; though of course that was far-fetched. He wondered if she was ticklish in that soft crook of her neck; he wondered what it was she wrote. The monitor was out of view despite her sitting just beside him and he didn’t want to interrupt, merely blinking slow and tired, so tired he only later realized there were no straps to see along the girl’s shoulders so bare.
At long last, he sat up. Setting the book aside, he stood, feeling a chill in the room maybe from a window left somewhere ajar. So wordlessly he undid his hoodie’s zipper shrugging the dark thing off, and without so much as a warning he drew near behind her, setting it warm onto her back.
“You’re gonna catch a cold like that, you nerd.” And he pinched too lightly at the back of Vivi’s neck, scolding.
Normally, one would be distracted by their ideal type sitting right next to them, but not Vivian - oh, no! Unlike all those testosterone addicts out there, she was proud to say she could ignore Horia in favor of writing about attractive 2D men. Again and again, her fingertips would type away in passionate fervor with her laptop screen FACING her bespectacled gaze. Though Vivian faintly registers the sleeves of her own sweater slipping down across her shoulders, she doesn’t so much as bat a single eyelash; after all, there was no chance Horia would look at her so lecherously, right?
Quite honestly enough, Vivian suspected she had the sexual appeal of a mushroom; therefore, showing off a little skin around another individual shouldn’t hurt. Besides, it wasn’t like Horia would notice anyways! Considering how he was reading a Tolkien novel when last she CHECKED on him, Vivian became confident she could write all the graphic threesomes and foursomes she wanted without him suspecting a single thing! Upon finally nearing the end of that obscene fic, a small triumphant smile soon curled up along the corners of her lips, only to fall open in panicked dismay when a hoodie draped over from behind, accompanied by an unmistakable pinching sensation.
“ Uwaaah! ” Vivian cries out, unable to repress her body’s instinctive urge to jolt forwards. Mere moments later, she hastily switched her laptop back to sleep mode before managing a childish huff. “ L-Look who’s talking, Hori-kins! I bet you’re every bit a nerd as me... hmph! ” Her arms then cross together as the warmth along her cheeks increase. God, that hoodie of his sure smelled distinctly like him.
Little by little, she pulls it tighter around her torso until it resembled a small makeshift blanket ENCIRCLING her upper frame. “ For your information, I lived in Canada all my life, so I’m used to being cold - still, um, thanks for trying to keep me warm. I do love hoodies, you know. They’re very, uh... manly, much like myself, of course! ” Vivian awkwardly stammers out while secretly hoping he hadn’t ended up reading some of the words on her monitor.
@gebeleixis / continued from here ;;