#*me immediatelly rethinking sharing anything i write*

[chaotic-bells]

@thedevilinmybrain ​ tagged me to share a snippet of something I’m writing, and for the first time I have something to share that’s not part of a round robin!

His phone pings with a message a few hours later, startling Harry. It’s dark outside, and Harry realizes he has no idea of what time it is. A quick glance at his phone and his lockscreen accuses him of spending the past three hours reading. Once he unlocks his phone, he sees there is a message from a number he doesn’t recognize.

“Heya, I would like to make a maintenance request. I’m from apartment 28.”

Harry blinks, the words not fully penetrating his brain. His eyes travel back to his computer, to the story he was reading just seconds ago.

“Don’t!” says Noah, stopping Jeremy’s hands as they travel under his shirt. “We can’t keep doing this. I can’t wake up to an empty bed again.”

His phone pings again, this time an email alert with the same message he received from tenant of apartment 28. He should really answer that. What did Niall say again? Get pictures, or something?

“Hello. What seems to be the issue? Could you send us a picture?” He replies, barely paying attention. He continues reading the story, anxious to know what happens next.

“There is no hot water in my apartment since early today. I assumed you guys were working on it, but Liam says everything is fine in his apartment.”

Harry glances at his phone, and as he sees just a text with no pictures, he hits reply without bothering to really read it.

“Would you mind sending me a picture of your issue?”

“It looks like this… but not hot...?”

There is a picture this time, but as far as Harry can see it’s a working water tap. He knows he should be paying more attention, but there are only two more paragraphs to go. He will just finish reading and then reply to 28 in a moment. From what he can see, it is not like anything is on fire anyway.

His phone pings again a few minutes later, just as Harry finishes reading the last sentence. He doesn’t have the time to be anxious about the cliffhanger and any thoughts about Jeremy and Noah flees Harry’s mind as he reads the message.

“Oh, you mean a *picture*. Got it. How about this one?”

There is a selfie attached to the message as well. It is of the most gorgeous man Harry has ever seen. His side swept fringe is almost covering one of his sky blue eyes, hair under an oversized grey hood. He looks soft and sleepy like he just woke up.

He also looks very annoyed, and is flipping him off in the picture. There is a caption in bright green letters on the bottom of the picture.

“Please. Fix my water Daddy.”

Harry chokes on nothing.

Based on this post.

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