#UNFORTUNATELY. I jest. I can't even go to bed it's too light outside still and I'll feel worse if I'm not at least in front of work

[anothermonikan]

yeah professor I can't do my assignment. yeah no my F/O has deemed me too sick to work. yeah she wants me to go back to bed with her immediately. yeah. sorry <3

[lou-struck]

Snow Day

Tetsuro Kuroo x reader

WC: 1k

~ It's a dark and gloomy Monday morning. The kind that would be wonderful to spend in bed. But unfortunately, you have to get up and go to work, or do you?

Winter mornings are quite strange; your cozy bedroom is still flooded with darkness as your phone alarm pulls you from your slumber. It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to this different kind of darkness. Instead of the blackness of the night sky, your world is tinted dark gray from the clouds that cover the fading stars and rising sun, whose light would usually peak in through your frost-covered window. 

Your sheets are warm and far too comfy to abandon, especially when you are curled up in a tender pile of limbs with your boyfriend, Tetsuro Kuroo. 

The raven-haired man snores softly next to you. His face buried in the crook of your neck he sleeps. It's so nice; your eyelids feel heavy as you sink deeper into your pillow, and your mind feels like it's reaching out to the hazy cloud of sleep that looms above you tauntingly. You feel as if you are almost able to grab a corner of it and pull your weary consciousness back into dreamland. 

Until the harsh blaring sound of not just one but two alarm clocks sends you back to reality, your body jolts awake, and you reach blindly over to your nightstand to grab your phone and silence the damn beeping noise.

Sleep would've been wonderful, but you forgot something very important this dark, sleepy morning. It's Monday, which means you both have to get up and go to work.

"Tetsu," you croak. Your first words of the day come out far choppier than you would have liked as you reach over your sleeping boyfriend to shut off his alarm. "We gotta get up."

"Nah, Come on, baby," a sleep-laced voice tickles the shell of your ear as his pale limbs pull you back into the comfort of his chest. "Don't you want to stay here and be cozy all day?"

You consider his words for a moment, but you pull yourself away from his tempting pile of cuddles with a sleepy sigh. "Can't." Your feet find the carpet and your lips turn upwards in a smile when you see the look of disappointment on the man's face. "We gotta go be adults."

"That's miserable." he groans as you slip away. Without your warmth, the bed feels less comfortable than it did a moment ago and he reluctantly slides out of bed just the same as you. 

You guys slip into your morning routine easily, standing on either side of your bed as you make it. Folding and smoothing each layer of your still-warm sheets. 

He notices that one of your pillows has been launched across the room, "Hmm, it looks like someone was angry at the pillows again." he teases, pointing to the little round decorative pillow that serves no use to either of you. 

"I was not," you say defensively. "It was probably just trying to escape since we don't use it." When he raises a brow at you, you cease with your anti-throw pillow tirade and walk over to the frosty windowed area to get the little guy and place him back on your bed. 

When you reach down, you are able to see a bit of the outside from a clear spot on the otherwise frost-covered window. The world around you is covered in white. Joy and nostalgia fill your heart as you see the thick blanket of snow that covers everything in sight. It encases your cars and decorates the treetops, and you turn to Tetsuro in excitement. 

"Tetsu! Look outside." you gasp, flicking your wrist and tossing the small pillow back onto the bed. 

"What's got you all riled up?" He walks over and sees the winter wonderland awaiting you outside and smiles. "Oh, Where did all this come from? I checked the paper yesterday and didn't see any snow in the forecast."

"Maybe you should look elsewhere for weather updates." you tease. Tetsuro has always been a bit of an old soul when it came to things like reading the paper or prepping his coffee black, even though he hates the taste. 

If he heard your jest, he doesn't reply. Instead of using his long legs to stride across, he uses his long legs to stride across the bedroom over to his nightstand, where his phone sits, lit up with a new notification. 

You notice from your bedside table your device lights up just the same. There is a skip in your step as you pad across the carpet to see who could possibly be texting you at this hour.

Due to last night's heavy snowfall, management has decided that the roads are too perilous for our valued employees to go into the office today. Any meetings or presentations are to happen over Zoom. -Thanks, Management

The short and sweet message from your higher-ups brings a gleeful smile to your face because you are one of the lucky few who have absolutely no meetings planned for today. Letting out a happy squeal, you set your phone back onto your nightstand and power it off. 

You won't be needing it anyway…

Slender arms wrap around your midsection as your boyfriend's warm breath tickles the shell of your ear. "Let me guess, you have a Snow day?"

"Mmmhmm," you nod excitedly, "And what about you?"

You feel his grin against your neck. "Snow day." he purrs. "What should we do first, my Love?" 

A new day wiped free of commitments doesn't always land at your feet like this; with so many possibilities, a part of you wonders how you can choose just one thing. 

But there is another part of you that knows exactly how you should start the day. Your body moves on its own accord as you flop back down on the bed, toss the stupid little throw pillow to its spot across the room, and wiggle under the blankets, effectively undoing the first productive thing you had done this morning. 

"I'm going back to bed." you declare, earning a hyena-like cackle from your boyfriend. 

"Good answer," he smirks. His long arms stretch out to close the curtains and darken the room so the pair of you can enjoy the rest of your day off snuggled up in each other's arms.

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