When you and Charlie began dating the reactions were… mixed, to say the least. You could see why, of course. He is a 55-year-old man with a stable career and four children, and you’re a college student, so you understood why the news was hard to take.

It’s been a little over a year since you started dating and you recently moved in to the firehouse. Sure, it was a bit of an adjustment for everyone, but the family have all grown used to you.

You wake up to the alarm in the firehouse going off and groan. Charlie rolls over and presses a kiss to your temple before he climbs out of bed and starts getting dressed.

He grimaces, “try to get back to sleep, sweetheart, sorry I woke you.”