un professore one shots // simuel

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Simone slowly turned around on his bed looking, with his left arm, for the warm body he was snuggled against to but that had clearly left him, he tried to find it with his eyes closed, patting the mattress under him. But it was empty. He sighed and forced himself to open his eyes.

Manuel wasn't there. The light breeze coming from the slightly open window made him shiver when he removed the blanket from on top of him. He moved slowly, he stood up and wore his slippers. The house was pretty much silent, the only thing you could hear were birds chipping outside, it was morning already, he wasn't sure of what time it could've been, but the sun was starting to come up in the sky.

He tiptoes downstairs, moving carefully to not scare them in case they're in the kitchen. Or just laying on the couch together . The couch is empty but he hears light giggles coming from the kitchen. And then he saw them, Manuel and their daughter. Manuel was holding her in his arms, her small face lying on his shoulder and him rocking her left and right trying to probably put her to sleep.

Luce was 6 months old, and she was their biggest blessing. The first time Simone and Manuel had seen her they had cried for the following 3 hours, almost fighting on who got to hold her in his arms while she slept. Manuel had picked the name, cause she was their light, the center of their worlds, she was their little bean of love. She was born a day after Jacopo's death, thats why the name Luce, cause while Simone was sad over his brothers memory, Luce was coming to light at the dawn of the next day. And Simone liked to think she was sent to them by Jacopo. Even though they had to go through the longest surrogacy process.

5 months earlier

"Simo she's so small I'm scared I'll hurt her just by holding her" Manuel had said wiping away a tear that had fallen from his eye. Simone smiled and kissed his temple.
"You're not gonna hurt her Manu, never. Don't you see? She loves you, look she's smiling! Look!"  Simone told him taking out his phone to take an insanely amount of pics, again. He hadn't stopped from the moment they got to know they were having a baby. He had pics and videos of everything every moment and he jealously kept them on his phone. In the little house emoji folder.

"Hi little Luce, are you smiling at your dad?"
Luce giggled, probably at the voices, not like she could understand what was actually going on. Manuel smiled and left a kiss on her forehead before starting to rock her to sleep. Simone took a pic and immediately used it as a lockscreen. He smiled and got close to his husband carefully hugging him from behind, with his heart exploding in his chest.

With his baby's head on his shoulder Manuel felt like he was floating on a cloud, even though it was 5am and he could've used a few more hours of sleep, he wouldn't change that moment for anything in this world. She didn't usually wake them up at night, she loved sleep and Simone always told everyone "she took that from his dad" and everyone always laughed at it.
But it was partially the truth, sometimes when he'd come back from work he'd find them both taking a nap on the couch with the tv on waiting for him.

"I love you so much, dad would give his life for you" he whispered to her while rocking her back to sleep. She had woken up crying and he didn't want to wake Simone up, so he had gotten up and did what she seemed to love the most. Little walks around the house while she was being lightly swung left and right.

Simone watched the whole scene and got closer to them slowly, to not scare Manuel off.
"Ehi" he whispered.
Manuel jumped a little but thankfully Luce didn't move, she kept sleeping peacefully on her dad's shoulder.

"Why are you up? Go back to sleep" he said.
"Let's switch, you go to sleep I take her to bed" "No way, you have work in three hours go to bed Simo, please" he said caressing Luce's back slowly. Simone looked at her and she definitely has a favorite dad he thought. Her peaceful expression warmed his heart and he got closer. With a finger he slowly caressed her little hand that was grasping Manuel's shirt.
Luce felt his finger and moved her hand to grab it, Simone was sure he was gonna cry.

"I love you" he whispered to her and kissed her cheek without moving his finger.

They stayed like that for a while, the three of them in the middle of the kitchen while the sun was rising signing the start of a new day in Rome. Manuel left a kiss between Simone's hair and laid his head against his chest.
"Let's get you both to bed huh?" Simone said and they slowly moved to go upstairs.

They put Luce in her bed careful to not wake her up, kissed her goodnight and looked at her one last time before leaving the room.
Back in their bedroom Manuel snuggled against Simone and hugged his chest. Simone got impossibly closer to him and kissed his forehead.

"I love you Simò" Manuel mumbled about to fall asleep.  
"I love you too Manu" he said back.
"You and Luce are my whole world" Manuel whispered before closing his eyes to sleep.
"You two are my whole world too, my only source of light, forever"