Through the Screen

thin rays of sparse sunlight were struggling through the bay window, barely reaching the foot of the bed and the digital clock next to it blared five minutes to eight. abel groaned out of frustration, patting around the bedsheets to find noah, only burying his face inside the warm pillow when he found no one.

"noah!" he called, voice muffled by the pillow and he could hear noah's disinterested hum in response.

"where are you?" his tone trailed more into a whine as he opened his eyes, rubbing them tiredly with the back of his hand and sitting up straight in bed.

"bathroom!" noah's voice was echoey, and abel only groaned again, kicking the covers off his body and leaving the gradually pooling heat in his bed.

now that the days were inching closer to the mid of december, mornings were turning out to be a lot more chillier than they were previously, and abel took it upon himself to curse out the cold water that was running from the tap.

"good morning," noah spat the toothpaste in the sink, washing out his mouth and pressing a kiss on the top of abel 's head, who's expression was one of discomfort as he hesitantly dipped his fingers under the cold water.

"god i have so many mixed feelings about winters," abel shivered slightly once noah's cold fingertips attempted to grip his waist and he just shrugged him off.

"noah! your hands are cold don't fucking touch me," noah only laughed in response to the meaningless statement, wrapping his arms tightly around abel 's waist and placing a soft kiss against the back of his neck.

cascading over the skin of abel 's neck and the

john if you don't," abel remarked, rolling his

coffee on the way?" noah asked,

words were barely comprehensible

to be sure and abel

make breakfast till then, you take a shower," noah pressed another kiss against abel cheek and abel only whined in protest, grabbing noah's arm and pulling him back,

the bottom of his sweatshirt and reluctantly pulling it off, shivering once the

his morning hair further. it wasn't like he didn't want to take a shower with abel, it's just that it wouldn't feel completely ordinary

his lips. sure they have been much more comfortable around each other in the past two days but noah didn't feel exactly ready to jump in

start washing up. he was half aware that he was thinking way too much about a simple shower and that abel and him were married and shouldn't be feeling

gasp escaped his lips, and he tilted his head slightly to watch

tell," abel commented, voice lost in the pattering shower but

moment, and abel nodded in an understanding gesture, dragging the scratchy washcloth over

eyes and tilting his head back to let the shower wash the shampoo from his hair, and they turned in their positions so that