Story: Beautiful Disease
Pairing(s): Gin|Ren
Word Count: 250
Rating: T
Author's Comment: Valentines in November? Yeah, I have so many Valentine's one-shots that I never completed being re-purposed as short fiction.
If you want to see any couple or character in certain situations from this story, let me know. I'm taking suggestions! If I feel inspired by a suggestion or feel that I can make it work, I'll write them!
Originally posted on November 23, 2017 for 30 Days of Short Fiction. For more information on 30DoSF, please refer to the pinned entry on at my wordpress, linked available in my profile, or read the vague explanation under the announcements header on my profile page.
Never on Valentine's Day
"What are you doing?" asked Ren, looking up from her book to Gin. His body half over her own, his shihakusho hanging off his shoulder. She slammed her novel shut. "Better question, why are you in my house?"
"I figured we should celebrate with a bang," he said, grinning ear-to-ear.
"Uh-huh." She shifted under his weight. "Celebrate what exactly?"
"Valentine's Day."
"I didn't get you anything."
"Don't want nothin', nothin' ya gotta buy anyway."
"I'm not having sex with you today," she said, deadpanned.
"Any particular reason?"
"I'll fuck you any day of the year except on bullshit holidays catered to idiot couples."
"Yer no fun."
She pushed his face away from hers. "Go to sleep."
Gin dropped down on the futon next to her, resting his chin on her shoulder as she reopened her book to continue where she left off.
She felt unnerved knowing that he watched her that she read the same sentence four times before she realized she was looping the scene she was reading.
She reached up to run her fingers through his hair and sighed, resting comfortably on the mountain of pillows at their backs. "I can't concentrate with you looking over my shoulder."
He didn't answer.
Ren at his face and noticed the steadiness of his breath. She huffed, but the feeling was fleeting. She kissed the top of his head, breathing in the smell of the fresh shampoo in his drying hair, and set her book aside to fall asleep with him.