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Steven Grant was a master of puzzles.
Jigsaws he solved within a matter of hours, if that. You'd long since stopped trying to keep track of his 3000-or-more-piece puzzles, always Egyptian-themed, that he'd clear a table for, finish in record time, and then break it up and put it away before reaching for the next one.
Escape rooms? You figured when you introduced him to the random little escape room app on your phone that he'd be just as stumped as you were. Instead, ten minutes later, he asked you how he gets to the next world. "Steven," You breathed in astonishment. "You... You beat the fucking game?!" I think it's a given to say that he'd also completely owned your consoles when you showed him puzzle-based games like Skyrim or Zelda.
Jenga, Ka-Plunk, DnD, hell, even Clue, he blew your mind with how quickly puzzles were solved by his hands. Incomprehensible, astounding, holy fucking shit your boyfriend is a genius.
Specifically, one of them in particular.
His Rubik's cube. The way he moved those goddamn fingers, those fingers that he could bend and flick and curl expertly against you and in you when you needed him too. Those hands alone could make you see stars if he was really intent on doing so.
He hated it when he had to use both hands for the Rubik's cube. So he oiled it, ensuring that it flipped and moved with the smallest of touches, one-handed. Shk, shk, shk, he'd already solved it twice while you were watching, restarting the process when you asked him that one simple question. "Just one more time, love. Three times, then I'm all yours, yeah?" His soft voice was deeper, huskier, a little out-of-focus because of how deeply he was concentrating- not that you could tell he was. He looked calm, serene... but calculating. Deep in thought.
