Ch. 1- I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart.
Sarah just couldn't decide if she want to bury herself underneath her covers and die of embarrassment or punch the Goblin King right in the middle of his beautifully chiseled face; maybe both. The day had been the usual; work, lunch break, more work, home. She had crawled into her shabby little apartment, made dinner, talked on the phone for an hour with Toby, and slithered into a steaming hot bath with bubbles; her favorite part of the day. She loved the feeling of the heat of the water embracing her and the cool tingling and peppermint smell of her face mask. It was there, as she sat in nothing but bubbles and a white face mask, that she heard the voice of the mighty Goblin king boom from above and then the king himself poof into the bathroom with a shower of glitter.
He must not have known what, exactly, she was doing, because after the "Hello Precious" that rang from the ceiling and he appeared, he started to say something else then stuttered to a stop and went a shade of red that she was sure was the same color that burning on her own face. She was speechless; but whether it was from shock that she saw the king again or the state in which he caught her, she was unsure. She started to say something but it came out a strangled noise. She quickly closed her mouth and cleared her throat, but before she could get anything out he snapped his eyes shut and turned around.
"I- uh... I'll be waiting in your room of living," he mumbled out and opened the bathroom door and slipped out. Sarah quickly rinsed herself off and got out of her tub and into her pjs. If the Goblin King was going to interrupt the better part of her day, he wasn't going to get anything fancy. She emerged from the bathroom in a cloud of steam and shivered at the chill in the air. It was late fall but she couldn't afford to turn up the heat much higher. The bill was already a little much for her minimum wage.
She found him completely stretched out on his back on her couch flipping through the channels. She sighed rather loudly and made to walk past him to the kitchen for some ice cream but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her down on top of him. He wrapped his arms around her as she sighed again and snuggled her cheek in to his warm chest.
"Of all the people in the world to fall in love with, it just had to be you." she murmured playfully.
He just chuckled and said, "You know, I think I prefer you in bubbles".