You and your roommate, Simon, had always had a bit of an odd relationship. More than just roommates, but no confessions had been made other than a few odd moments.

This was one of those moments.

A particularly nasty flu going around that you had struggled through a few weeks past had now sunk its teeth in Simon, and you’d been helping your exhausted roommate recover.

He was submerged in a hot bath in the hopes of stemming his cough, reluctantly unmasked as you help him wash his hair.