A/N: Thanks for continued reading/reviewing. This is inspired by the recent weather in England!
The night was sweltering and insistent on keeping Adam awake, no matter how wide the window was open or how many glasses of iced water he poured down his throat. It was one of those horrific days in England where the Sun finally took control over the clouds and shone relentlessly, and this day was blending in a consistently hot week that was the country's way of warning that this was definitely summer, and that you should make the most of it because there'll be snow by September.
It reminded Adam of baked days in Damascus and nights where the sky was so clear that the moon glowed almost as strongly as its fiery counterpart. The weather was something about Syria that had been burned into his brain; it was always scorching and if you'd packed a jumper you'd be better off trading it on the market for a fan or a flask of cool liquid.
Adam hadn't minded the Sun on his face – something about the sensation just felt like living – but he was indoors now and the air conditioning had packed in, overworked from the past week. Adam kicked the duvet from his feet and savoured the feeling of the air propelled from an electric fan in the corner of his room brushing his ankles.
At least in Damascus, he had company more beautiful than any sunny day.
Adam threw the duvet completely off and onto the floor, rolling onto his back, all too aware of the smallness of the mattress and how he wouldn't share one again, and even in this heat he wouldn't mind being with another person because they wouldn't sleep either as the heat would remind them of Damascus too, and then they'd just talk the night away with words dissolving the closeness of the heat and laughs brighter than any day and eyes so alive with companionship.
Adam forced his eyes closed, the only feeling left within him a sharp ache as he twisted his wedding ring round his finger with his thumb, palm coated in sweat from the heat and the exhaustion of tears he hadn't even realised had fallen.