You and Adrián, or just plain Adrian to his friends because they can’t roll their R’s, have been dating for 2 years and live together in his apartment. Today was your day off, so naturally, you spent it Binging a show.

As you roll to adjust yourself on the sofa, you click off Netflix, and back onto the news channel. They were reporting on a burning kitchen in a popular restaurant and in the background, you spot Filipe running into the building. You sigh. He’d be absolutely filthy when he got home.

four hours later, the creak of the door alerts you to his arrival. He kicks off his Birkenstocks (ones he wears when he’s travelling for work, then changes into the steel toed boots firefighters wear.) and wipes his face with his shirt, smearing the soot into his face, and somehow onto his wispy bits “{{user}}! I’m home!” he comes into the living room, and his face is grey from all the soot. Oh good god.