forum one on one romance? (closed)

Started November 22, 2019 by @Hybrid-Is-tired

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"A lot of friend's gifts you had to wrap?" He asked as he he looked at his replica Charlie Brown Tree that had wrapped presents under it that he had brought out of his room

"Friends, family, and I'm going to drop it all off tomorrow." She groaned sitting back on the floor. She cut more paper, and started wrapping another gift. "There's no way it's all going to be done."

"Hey I can help. I'll be right over love." and the line cut off

"Tempest you-" The phone buzzed and she rubbed her face. "Sweet and helpful Tempest." She chuckled taping the last side of the box she had wrapped.

There soon was a knocking about thirty seconds later.

Joanna pushed herself off the floor, and went to open the door. "Hey," She said as she opened the door.

He held out a cup of cider to her as he stepped in "You need this right now. Let's get this done babe. Tempest didn't let on how tired I was because she needed his help and so he was going to wrap the heck out of these gifts with her.

She blinked out of surprise and took the cup from him. A smile, simple and sweet, broke onto her lips. "Tempest, you don't have to. I was just ranting." She reached up and pet his cheek. "But knowing you, you won't leave until this is all done. Right?"

"That's right I won't!" He smiled and shifted to his canine like form so he could cut tape and paper with his nails and in general be more quick with wrapping. He looked to her so she could tell him what to wrap first

“There’s that over there.” She pointed to a decently large Amazon box. “Can you wrap that with whatever paper?” She asked tucking hair behind her ear.

He took some snowflake themed paper and wrapped it quite quickly using the process he had used countless times. Soon it was nearly wrapped and taped in the correct spots. He then did onther she told him and soon made a process out of it, like a machine

After an hour or so, Joanna was laying on the floor with a light smile. "It's done!" She exclaimed, with a laugh. It was late, and she was overly tired, it was slowly slipping through her normal persona.

Tempest's eyes were drooping along with his ears and he flopped onto his back and then stuck a spare now on Jo's forehead and giggled tiredly

Joanna giggled too, turning her head to him. "T-thanks." She hummed, still giggling, mostly from the sleep deprivation.

He stood and picked her up gently, carrying her to her room and putting her under her sheets, taking the bow off her head and muttering "I opened the best present early." Kissed her softly and turned to leave "Get some sleep love."

Her face flushed, but she wanted him close by. “Tempest- wait-“ She pleaded sitting up stretching her hand out to him.

He turned and tilted his head. "Yes? What is it?"

“Will you-“ She paused, looking down to her hands that were fiddling with the sheets. She glanced at him before looking away once more. “Will you stay until I’m asleep?” She asked gently, barely audible.

"why wouldn't I?" He sat on the bed and stroked her hair softly humming gently

Joanna lifted her eyes to look at him, leaning into his hand. “I don’t know- I just thought maybe you had things you may need to do before going to bed. Or something like that.”

"I already wrapped my presents hun." He lay down beside her and cuddle close to her, glad she had asked him to stay for now

“Well, I didn’t know.” She mumbled snuggling into him. “You can stay the night if you want.” She said in more of a whisper now.

"I'd love to Joanna" he muttered back and as he relaxed and started to hum Twelve Days of Christmas

“I like it when you do that.” She mumbled relaxing her head on his chest, feeling calmed at the gentle vibrations. “Hum I mean.”

He just kept humming as I response and started to slip off to sleep, soon lightly snoring next to her