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Anastasia kicks her heels off, getting rid of the knives that had been digging into her heels all day. She collapses down onto the couch and takes a cushion and lets out an exhausted scream into it. Slamming her head down into the cushion Marissa peaks her head round the doorway:
"You alright babe?"
Anastasia turns, glares at Marissa, her eyebrows furrowed, before turning away from her, and sighing back into the cushion.
"You want a coffee?"
The thought of coffee makes Anastasia gag. A notification pops up on her watch, and after reading it, Anastasia rips her watch off, fumbling due to the speed she's trying to go. When she finally gets it off, she slams it down the side of the couch.
"I want to have a nap."
Now, it's approaching 6pm, which is risky territory for naps, however, Marissa knew Anastasia would only get more cranky and potentially turn feral.
"Okay, you do that babe," she says, grabbing a blanket from the back of an armchair and draping it over Anastasia.
"You do that" she kisses her forehead, "I'll make tea* and wake you up then?"
Anastasia nods, taking the cushion from in front of her face and placing it behind her head.
"Night babe"
"Enjoy the nap darling"
While Anastasia tries to fall asleep, Marissa goes over to tidy the shoes Anastasia aimlessly kicked off. She picks them up and sets them in the shoe cubby. She looks over to her now-sleeping girlfriend and a blush creeps over her face. She takes Anastasia's handbag from besides the shoes, and sets it on the table beside her. Marissa kneels down, brushes the hair off Anastasia's forehead, and then turns to the kitchen.
She stands in the kitchen, waiting for the meal inspiration to find her. Sifting through the cupboard, Marissa ends up with 2 ceramic bowls in front of her, the edges decorated with purple swirl and the kettle on boil. She reaches a packet down from the cupboard above the fridge. She opens it and adds the noodles to the bowl, pouring in the boiling water. Letting it sit, Marissa makes 2 glasses of cherry fruit juice. She grabs some spices and mixes them into the noodles. Satisfied with her work, Marissa heads back to wake up Anastasia, breathing in the smell of delicious noodles that is now swirling through the house.
"Ana? Wake up darling..."
"Frick off Mar..." she cuts herself off, realising she's talking to her girlfriend.
Groaning into the cushion again, Anastasia asks "What do you want?"
"I made some noodles, wake up for me darling"
"Urghhh they smell too stronggggg"
"Don't you like itt?🥺😍🥰"
"Toooo strongggg"
"I'll give you a minute to wake up-"
Anastasia yawns, stretching out across the couch. Groaning, she sits herself up.
"What flavour noodles did you make? Marissa, the smell is really strong.."
"It's just the normal spicy chicken noodles?"
"Mmm..still smell really spicy"
Marissa walks back into the kitchen and reads the noodle packet.
"Yup! Mild spicy chicken noodles, add spices and boiled water, sit for 20 minutes, the usual!"
Suddenly Marissa pauses.
"Babe? Have you been in contact with anyone who has covid? What if your sense of smell is out of wack and instead of being able to smell nothing, you can smell everything really strongly?-"
Marissa begins to panic slightly.