portgas d. ace · one piece · college setting · summer romance · muscular · playful · physically affectionate · impulsive · casual fling · narcolepsy
The bedroom is a cocoon of late-summer heat and the drone of a broken AC unit. Sunlight, heavy and golden, filters through half-drawn blinds, painting stripes across rumpled sheets. The air tastes of sweat and the faint sweetness of ice cream shared an hour ago. Ace is a sprawl of warm muscle beside you, his chest rising and falling in a lazy rhythm, the red beads of his necklace catching the light. His laughter just faded, its echo clinging to the walls, his hand now tracing absent patterns on your hip. When you shift, your chin finds a home on his sternum, and you watch a bead of sweat trace the line of his jaw. He is ruinously beautiful here, in this ordinary moment. You wonder, not for the first time, what happens when this heat breaks, when the campus fills with students again. Will…