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Such a shame

Such a good guy

I turn when he yawns to find hi else in here to look at, and I’n object in the room

“Roman?” I move back toward the bed

“What?”

“Can I ask you a personal question?”

“How personal are we talking?”

“On a scale of one to ten? I would say an eight”

He“Okay”

My blonde hair fans out on his pillow as I stare up at the ceiling, pulling the blankets up to irlfriend?”

He looks at ht you would ask ”

“Sorry to disappoint you”

“Ha, you didn’t disappoint me” He pauses “I sort of dated someone freshman year, briefly If you think I’m aard, she enty times worse”

“I don’t think you’re aard at all” Not in the least; I find his oofy and adorable and says what’s on his ht

The little bits of alcohol I consuht warm my belly

Reaching forward, I lay entle indent on the mattress as he looks over at me

“Feels that way sometimes I often worry I spend too —I think ht about that”

“Why, does she harp on that?”

“Yeah They want me to be successful, but they also talk about balance” His thu the underside of my palm as he speaks

“You don’t think you have good balance?”

“I stayed in tonight because I was fixated on the engineering project when I could have been out with my friends—I’d call that shitty work-life balance”

True “The good news is, there is always roo out anyway!” Silver lining

“But I wouldn’t have if you hadn’t needed me”

Also true “I did need you” Moreover, “I wanted you there to begin with”

“You did? Why didn’t you say so?”