MONSTER

VII

How did I end up like this again?

Ah yeah, the fight we had.

I held my breath, opening my eyes slowly and looking beside me, at a still sleeping Meliodas. Blonde bangs fell over his face, which had softened considerably while sleeping. His chest rose slowly and evenly, slow breaths coming out of his mouth and tan hands curled slightly in my sheets. With his eyes closed like that and an expression so relaxed, he looked so adorable I could almost forget everything we'd lost.
I admired my love quietly for a minute and sighed.
I stiffened and tried to wiggle out of bed silently and slowly. I was really starting to wonder how the heck it had ended like this.

~~~><10 hours earlier><~~~

"So who's Elizabeth going to room with?" Hawk piped up.

The tension suddenly increased in the room, and Hawk shivered at the sharpness of the silence. I stiffened on the bar seat, crossing my arms and looking away with a scowl. Hawk just had to bring it up.

He was right to ask though. Last night we had fallen asleep on the doctor's roof and we had been traveling for the day; now that it was time to sleep again the touchy subject had to come up.
Ban had already fallen asleep in Eli-Ban's room, and so he had left me alone on this one. Elizabeth sat on one of the tables with a guilty look, sensing that this fight was somehow about her and squirmed awkwardly in her seat.

Meliodas and I stayed silent and I refused to look at him. We still hadn't really talked since the small fight we had and I was still upset that he hadn't really apologized besides that pathetic attempt with the meat. I huffed, "Don't look at me."

Hawk shivered at the sudden tension, shaking a bit. "H-hey what's the problem? Somebody just has to room with somebody, right?"

Meliodas held his chin in thought from where he stood behind the bar, glancing at me and Elizabeth with an unreadable look in his bright green eyes. Then he beamed and grinned, "I'll just room with (Y/N)! That way Elizabeth can sleep in my room comfortably, and all's fine!"

I spewed out my water, coughing. Elizabeth was immediately by my side, patting my back as I coughed with a red face.
"Lady (Y/N)! Are you okay?" She exclaimed worriedly as she patted my back.

I nodded as Meliodas' smirk widened mischievously at me and what little blood I had in me rushed to my face.  Whaaaaaaat?! With me?! Why though?! "W-What!?" I exclaimed sorely, patting my chest.

"Well yeah, it's the obvious solution! Hawk and you are worried about Elizabeth sleeping with me, but your room is not exactly fit for you two, so the obvious thing is for me to sleep with you." Meliodas exclaimed cheerfully with a grin, shrugging and suddenly dragging me up the stairs.
"Well good night Elizabeth, Hawk! Just go up to my room, 'kay?"

I could only gape at him as he dragged me and before I could even break out of my shock trance and protest, say anything at all, Meliiodas was already in a night shirt he had grabbed from my closet and had tucked himself in my red sheets.

~~~><Back to the present><~~~

And that's how I ended up in my current predicament. I whined and covered my flushed face, peeking at Meliodas through my fingers. This is so unfair. How can anyone look so pretty?! This should be illegal.

Not to mention the fact that he was tied up; because Hawk had decided he couldn't be trusted around any woman. Hawk had tied him up tightly, legs to torso and hands in there too, but he had wiggled so much during the night that he'd managed to free his hands. It was a way too positively sinful sight for me to handle.
I flushed brighter at that and let out a quiet squeal. Totally unfair. Specially with how comfortable he looks on my bed. Gods help me.