Orihime's friends never quite understood why she stayed with the ex Sexta Espada, Grimmjow. He was loud, cruel, vulgar and crude with the foulest language any of them had ever heard. While Orihime was quiet, gentle, kind and the happiest and most loving person on the face of the planet; the couple were complete opposites and yet they had been together for over a year. It never failed to confuse the rest of humanity.
What Orihime's friends didn't know, was how Grimmjow acted in the privacy of their apartment. Even though he was never as openly affectionate as other men, and was more often than not, loud and rude, it was the little things he did that made Orihime stay. It was the gentle kiss on her cheek as she curled against his body, it was the absent twirling of her hair around his finger as they sat together, it was the way he purred her name in his sleep that made her stay. It was the way he would put his head in her lap to feel her fingers in his hair or nuzzle his face in the nape of her neck when he was tired or the way he would sleep, curled around her body with his face nestled in her hair. It was the little ways Grimmjow showed his love, that made her stay.