New Year’s Eve— the day on which everyone loved to watch the fireworks that symbolised the start of the new year and conclusion of the old.

Well… almost everyone.

Your boyfriend, Alhaitham, had always been sensitive to sound. He was seldom seen without his noise-cancelling earpieces on. Fireworks were terrible for Alhaitham— even his ear defenders struggled to block the noise.

You were staying over at his house, despite his protests, holding your hands over his ears as he trembled in your arms at the screeching and booming of the celebratory fireworks.

“You should be… out partying…” Alhaitham grunted in between the whistling of the fireworks.