Adam Douglas imagines

Move In

Adam was... stressed. He sat inside his flat, tucked up tightly to his desk. He was clacking away on his keyboard keys to type up his essay. He had 10,000 words due in less than twenty-four hours and only managed about 5000 of them, so he'd been sipping coffee for the last three hours desperate to stay awake and get it all done. He was stressed, weary, depleted, but he kept going.

His girlfriend Y/n, lay on his bed behind him, snuggled up in the sheets as cosy as possible almost taunting him with the idea of rest and comfort with her. She'd promised to stay up with him while he worked but had fallen into small naps several times.

He could feel her watching him, and he felt guilty. guilty that she was waiting for him, guilty that she was missing out on sleep for him. The last time she'd fallen asleep, he'd stopped his work and tucked her in better, pulling the covers up and placing a kiss on her head. He wanted to stop, to rest, to join her and cuddle and sleep, but he had a deadline. He stopped for a moment, just taking a second to relax his eyes. They were strained and dry staring at his monitor, and he ran his hand across his face as he leant back and glanced up at the electric alarm clock resting on his desk. The red light flashing thee thirty-one AM. He ran a hand through his hair and exhaled a long and tired sigh before he leant forward and got back to work, typing again.

"when's the deadline for submission?" Y/n asked gently,

"Nine." He said, barely looking away from his screen as he typed, too afraid that if he stopped, he'd never pick it up again. "I'm trying to get it done as quickly as possible so I can just rest,"

"Why not go back and do the whole, replace 'because' with 'so therefore the reason for this is' that turns one word into seven." She suggested,

He stopped. "Damnit Y/n, That's genius!" He started deleting and rewriting his existing sentences right away,

"You see. this is why you date the English major." she giggled,

"You're the best girlfriend I swear. What did I ever do without you, hm?" He chuckled, still typing away.

"You'd be sad and lonely," she teased sitting up to lean over and kiss his head as he worked,

He smiled and he leaned his head to the side as he continued typing. She always knew when he needed reassurance, whether physical or verbal, the only thing that would calm him like this "Sad and lonely..." he repeated, laughing softly, "That very much sounds like my life before I met you," He stopped his typing, only for a moment and tilted his head upwards to look at her "Y'know, I've really been thinking about something..."

"Oh? About ancient political organizations?" she asked glancing at his essay,

He rolled his eyes, lightly slapping her thigh before continuing, "It's not about the essay, I wanna ask you something..."

"oh? What?" Y/n asked,

He pushed his swivel chair back from the desk to look up at her, and he took her hand, "You know I love you, don't you? That I'd do anything for you, that I'd give you anything in the world?"

Y/n smiled, "I am very aware Adam you tell me every day, I love you too. And I think it's very sweet."

He smiled warmly at her, taking a moment to admire her, and how perfect she was. To him at least. "I've just... I've been thinking about, I dunno future stuff. I can't imagine not having you around, but I've been thinking if you'd..." He stopped for a moment, taking a breath. His heart was racing, nervous about what he was about to say. "...if you'd want to..." He swallowed, feeling a lump starting to form in his throat. She loved him right? She'd say yes? Why was he so nervous? "If you'd want to move in with me? Here, to my flat, once we are done with uni. I have enough money, I've been saving for a while and you have a shitty landlord and you've stayed over here all the damn time anyway so..."

Y/n hummed taking a moment to think about it, "You've really thought about this haven't you?" she asked trying to figure out as she watched his reaction, if this was a sleepy spur of the moment idea or if Adam had really thought about this.

He fidgeted under her watchful eye, but he answered truthfully. "You have no idea how often I've been thinking about this. Thinking about you, living with me, spending every night with eachother, cuddling, watching crappy shows on the tv together. How I'd love to wake up every morning to you being next to me... I've been thinking about it a lot."

Y/n smiled, "That's very sweet Adam... and I am sure it would be very nice. We can talk about it more... when your done your work okay. Properly talk it out."

He smiled, nodding gently at her. She didn't say no! She hadn't straight up said no, and he had a chance to talk more. "Right... yeah we can talk more when I'm finished." He leant over and placed a kiss on her cheek,

Y/n kissed his forehead and smiled, "We'll talk when we have the time to endlessly ramble." she cooed trying to reassure him and not make him worry she was going to say no.

He smiled at her, but his anxiety didn't pass that easily. Of course she might say no, there was always a chance, and his mind wouldn't shut up about it. He started to doubt himself, why would she want to move in with him anyway? She was probably just being polite to not hurt his feelings. He tried to shake the thoughts from his mind, and he squeezed her thigh. "Could you... could you sit on my lap? I just... I need you close to me."

Y/n nodded so Adam rolled back over to his desk and Y/n came over sitting on his lap while he did his work, "That better?"

He smiled and wrapped his arms around her waist to hold her on his lap. He rested his head on her shoulder and hummed in contentment, "Yeah... much better!" He sat there for a moment, hugging her and just enjoying her presence, before he finally made himself get back to work. He needed to finish this as quickly as possible so that he could stop worrying. He wanted so badly to have her by his side all the time, it was so stressful worrying that there was even a slight chance she would say no. Adam did his best writing away for another hour, but all the while Y/n sat on his lap nuzzled in his neck having a small nap on him. Adam was used to it by now, used to being Y/n's pillow. He didn't mind it either, he found it actually quite endearing. He was also used to working while she was asleep on his lap, and didn't mind in the slightest as it let him work much more effectively than he would do by himself. finally, he finished up not even caring to go more then ten words over the minimum. He checked it over added his source list and immediatly sent it over to the submission portal the moment the site confirmed it was taken. He felt the weight lift off of him the moment he pressed submit, and he leant heavily into the back of his chair, wrapping his arms around Y/n, still asleep on his lap, tighter.

"Humm?" Y/n stirred a little,

He chuckled, rubbing her back a little, "It's okay babe, don't wake up. I've just finished it"

"Yay..." she cooed kissing his cheek, "Well done Adam, now come to bed..."

He chuckled softly, nodding as he wrapped his arms around her tightly, lifting her up and carrying her over to the bed, laying her down carefully before climbing in next to her, wrapping his arms around her again and pulling her close into him. He nuzzled his head into her neck, and inhaled deeply. He could almost feel the tension and stress leave his body. He was with Y/n now, cuddled up in bed where he was at his happiest. It didn't matter if she said yes or no tomorrow, right now he just wanted to hold her close and rest.