[3:12 AM] The bed feels more spacious than it ought to.
You crack open an eye and glance at the other side of the bed. Empty. Your mostly-asleep gaze wanders to the clock on the far nightstand; after 3 in the morning. You let your eye close again, drifting comfortably for a while in the fog of half-consciousness. And then you roll over and sit up, stumbling slowly to your feet.
A faint bluish glow emanates from the other end of the hall. When you pad into the living room, you see Chris exactly where you’d left him hours ago. Hunched at his desk, headphones on, clicking every now and then, staring at Cubase and several instrument mixers.
He startles momentarily when you drape your arms over his shoulders. He relaxes and pulls the headphones down, tapping the spacebar to pause the music.
You kiss the top of his head. “How’s it looking?”
“Better,” Chris hums, lifting his free hand and rubbing your arm. “Fixed that annoying buzzing sound.”
You hum, resting your cheek against his hair, looking at the dual monitors. “Can I hear?”
“’Course,” he says, and you can hear the pleased grin in his voice. That’s his favorite request you can make of him.
He unplugs the headphones and fiddles with the knobs on his volume box, clicks around and then taps the spacebar again.
He’s right; the buzzing noise that had hovered persistently in the corners of the track is gone. He’s nuanced the vocal effects, as well, softened the pitch corrector, and you smile, fond of how sincere his voice sounds.
“’S pretty,” you murmur, humming at a new instrument that hadn’t been there before.
“It’s closer,” he admits, not fully accepting the compliment.
You’re too sleepy to push back, make him accept the praise, so you merely bury your face in his hair.
“You should get some sleep, like I said,” Chris tells you, voice tinged with concern.
He had told you to do that…four hours ago.
You snort. “Love. Check the time.”
“Hm?” You feel his head tilt, watch his mouse slide to the bottom corner of the screen to the clock. “…Oh.”
“Was sleeping,” you say, watching his mouse trail back up over Cubase, deliberating. “’N then I woke up with too much space ‘n not enough warm.”
He hums in acknowledgment, the noise tinged with guilt.
You kiss the top of his head again. “…Please?”
He sighs, leaning his head back against your shoulder.
“You at a good stopping point?” You ask, knowing too well what his next argument will be.
He sighs again quietly, a sound of concession. “I never am…but this will do.”
You grin and give him an encouraging squeeze as he presses save three times on each software.
“Bet you’ll knock it out of the park once your brain is fresh,” you tell him as he shuts the computer down.
“And once the headache passes,” he says, pressing the heel of one hand to his eye and rubbing as he rolls the chair back.
You frown, leaning back to let him stand and stretch. “You’ve been working with a headache?”
“Just hints of one,” he insists, waving it away as he relaxes out of the stretch. “Probably eye strain.”
You give him a look. “You know, that might not happen if you’d just wear your glasses.”
It’s a lost cause and you both know it. He snorts, then gets a better look at you and smiles.
“Your hair’s cute,” he says, lifting a hand to your head and ruffling.
You scrunch your face up in protest. “’S bedhead, Chris.”
“And it’s cute,” he insists, leaning in and pressing a kiss to your forehead. “Bedtime?”
“Past bedtime,” you say, giving him a stern look when he leans back. “Long, long past.”
“Hmm,” he says, studying your face and smiling in that goopy-eyed way that you know means he’s barely listening. You roll your eyes.
He lets you take his hand and guide him back down the hall, lets you procure pajamas for him while he talks through what else he wants to do in the song, lets you help him change as he explains.
“Just want the feeling of the song to be right when you hear it, even without lyrics,” he says as you help pull on the pajama shirt.
“People will know,” you tell him, patting his shoulder and taking his hand again, guiding him to bed. “I can feel it when I hear it.”
“But what if that’s just you?” He frets, lying back and getting comfortable, drawing up the covers. “What if you just know me?”
You burrow under the covers and lay your head on his chest, wrapping an arm around him. “I do know you. But that’s not why I felt it.”
“But how do you know for sure?” He asks, his hand back in your hair, stroking softly.
You prop your chin up on his chest and look at him. “Babe. You’re not capable of making dishonest or disingenuous music. Your heart’s all the way out there in every little detail.”
He looks at you for a long moment, fingers slow and gentle in your hair. Eventually he lifts his hand and rests the pad of his forefinger on the tip of your nose.
“I like you so much,” he murmurs.
An embarrassed grin sweeps over your face. You nestle your face into his chest vigorously, and he laughs.
“Like you too,” you hum, sandwiching one of his legs between yours and snuggling in. “I’m also right.”
“Hope so,” he murmurs, and then his arm curls comfortably around you. “Go back to sleep.”
“You sleep, you need it more,” you mumble, and he chuckles.
“I’ll sleep well with my weighted blanket,” he teases you, hand squeezing your side reassuringly.
You grin and press a kiss to his chest. “Not as well as I’ll sleep with my body pillow.”
“You’re on,” he whispers, and you’re out like a light before a full minute passes.
i am so, so sorry for not getting back to you after that ask, life threw so much my way and i just got done handling 70% of it ;; but i shall be on regularly from now on, though it's only like. 2 days until christmas :c i will make sure to spend until the 30th/31st getting to know you better, i genuinely apologize once more!
you and your brother are so cute, though 🥹 i really love the number 2 myself. it's ironic how i used to hate it when i was younger because i would always get second (in) everything (2nd place at end-of-year evaluations, am the second child, would always get the second row/column seating, etc.) fjkdsdkf then i just grew to adore the little guy hehe omg that's such a pleasant colour palette⏤you must've been pretty happy with most photoshoot colour schemes and in tcc: freeze era! ah, runaway + long haired-hyuka... i totally understand 😌 that's personally my favourite era, but yeah, pre-debut and debut year were such fond days for me too :')
do you have more than one bias/a bias wrecker? also! your favourite season + txt album! ⏤ ☃️
omg no worries ! my bad too for not responding 😭 we have family over and my adorable little cousin has not let me go since she got here ahah take your time !! i hope you had a lovely (and restful!) holiday ❤️
my brother and i are certainly a pair even if we don’t talk that much we’re always there for each other when someone does need to talk and i’m very grateful for that ♡ there was this rhyme when i was little about first being the worst and second being the best and i definitely took that to heart even when my brother was top of his class and i was usually second or third
txt definitely own pastel colours!! the tdc star blue and yellow plus the blue hour blue will forever be iconic
ooh and as for bias i am so unloyal 😭 i think originally i was kai biased soobin wrecked but beomgyu has been creeping up on me ! and omg taehyun’s your fancams kept mysteriously appearing on my feed 🫣 plus yeonjun high fashion icon he has suchh a drawable face plus his gg dance covers go so incredibly hard but it really depends on the day for me though at the end of the day i’ll always be ot5 🩵🩵
i say i like winter but having just moved out of southern california i’ve realised winter means something very different up north and maybe i just like the fleeting weeks of spring instead
ooh and i have had tnc temptation on repeat these days ! though thursday’s child, blue hour, and tdc star are others i keep coming back to and i need to give tnc freefall another listen! i heard it briefly one morning and added the songs to my playlists but haven’t quite listened closely to each of them together as an album
thanks again for dropping in ! i hope you’re having a safe and happy holiday season 🫶🫶
hello luna, how are you doing? this is your secret santa :> looking forward to getting to know you throughout this event! these are such basic questions, but to start off, what's your favourite colour & number, and why kjfskd plus, your favourite txt era? ⏤ ☃️
omg secret santa hello ! i just had two finals on saturday and this morning so sorry for not getting back to u 😭 but i think they went ok !
in any case, to answer your questions, my favourite colour is light greyish blue but i also love pink. my bedroom has always been white and light blue so i think it just puts me at peace
as for a favourite number it’s kind of a silly story but growing up, my brother’s favourite number was 17 which is the day i was born and so i decided my favourite number would be 23 since that’s when he was born ahah but i also generally like 2s and 3s and prime numbers in general though i’ve never been particularly superstitious about it
for txt eras i love all of them it’s so hard to choose! personally i think tdc magic had some of my fav styling moments aesthetically (plus long haired hyuka🫡🫡) omg also beomgyu styling ever since blue hour has had me WEAK but i think musically i will always go back to debut since it has so many memories attached to it over the years though honestly their new releases have also been killing it i just love the whimsy of the earlier eras!
thanks for dropping in ! happy holidays and i can’t wait to hear more from u 🫶
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