the ransom sweep | aria & matt
There was a never ending buzzing slowly seeping its way into Matt’s light sleep. He groaned into the pillow his face was currently buried in as the realization set in that it was his phone ringing beside his head. Groggily he flipped over his eyes peeling up at a ceiling that didn’t belong to his bedroom but rather to his living room. The buzzing had stopped for a moment and he was grateful as he tried to recollect his thoughts from the previous evening - well rather the early morning of the current day. He didn’t have too long to piece things together though as his phone buzzed off again. This time he reached for it, only to feel his masquerade mask first and having to toss it out of the way to grab his ringing phone. The station number displayed on the front, and when he pushed it to his ear the voice on the other line informed him they were short handed with others out on a call and they needed him in as soon as possible. When he ended the call, exiting with a simple grunt he finally caught a glimpse at the time. It was a little later than seven and normally the man wouldn’t have complained, but his eyes had closed only a couple hours earlier after a night at the masquerade party. He had probably overdone it with the alcohol but to his defense he hadn’t planned on being called in.
Slowly, he made his way off the couch - still trying to remember why he had been on it in the first place. With pillow in tow he lightly padded to his bedroom. The door opened silently and his bed held his couch sleeping explain action. Blonde hair was sprawled across the remaining pillows and as he spotted her small frame the night came rushing back to him. It had started with a conversation mingled with drinks. And ended in him offering up his bed for safe keeping of the blonde - whose identity he still had not determined. By the time they had reached his apartment it was in the early hours of the morning. Small chats had turned into long yawns and heavy eyes and their evening ended in sleep.
Matt moved slowly through the room, inching towards the bed to see if her mask had finally fallen off. Her soft breathing made his pulse race as he mentally scolded himself for not paying more attention to which bits of his bedroom floor made noise with weight pushed upon them. His mission was unsuccessful though as when he was able to clearly view her, the mask still clung to her features. He was half tempted to reach out but another buzz from his phone reminded him of why he was even awake in the first place. It didn’t take him long to grab a set of clothes and push into the bathroom. He decided to shower at the station for fear of waking her and creeped out of the apartment just as quietly as he had entered the bedroom, hopefully not leaving a lingering noise for her to wake too.













