Flora/Helia - One falling asleep with their head in the other's lap
Flora heaves a happy sigh of contentment as she blinks sleepily up at the clouds drifting slowly past and thinks to herself that there isn't anywhere else she'd rather be. She's lying on a bed of soft grass, her head pillowed comfortably on her boyfriend's lap as he cards a hand softly through her hair.
"You're pretty good at that you know," she murmurs as he scratches gently at her scalp.
Helia just smiles and hums in response. Flora tilts her head slightly and blinks a little as she catches sight of a few small plaits woven into her hair.
"Did you do these?" she asks, fingering the neat work. "I didn't know you knew how."
Helia's hands don't falter and his expression, from where Flora can see it, is faintly amused. "I have two older sisters," he says simply, as if that's explanation enough. "There was barely a day growing up where they weren't either playing with my hair or getting me to do theirs."
Flora coos softly at the image of a younger Helia sitting patiently while his sisters fuss over him.
"I'm surprised you didn't cut your hair to get them to stop."
Helia chuckles quietly. "I didn't mind it so much. They were so much older than me that there wasn't really a lot we had in common so I liked that this was something we could do together."
"Do you miss them?" The question comes out slowly as Flora tries to fight off the sleep that's coming for her.
"A bit," comes Helia's thoughtful answer, his hand still combing gently through her hair. "It's been a while since I've seen them."
"We should take a trip to visit them," Flora says through a yawn. "You're older now, you might find you have more in common with them than you used to."
"You might be right," Helia says, and Flora can hear the smile in his voice even though her eyes have drifted closed. "I'd love to see them again regardless, and I know they'd love to meet you."
Flora thinks she might say she'd loved to meet them too, but she really can't be sure as the sweet tendrils of sleep finally reach out and claim her.
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