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It had been one of those days, the ones that make you sigh as you finally reach your door to your home. Sleeping 4 hours and going to work for 8 hours was not doing you any good, especially with just how horrible the day had been. It feels like almost every interaction just ended in disaster and so many mistakes were made at work today that it was a miracle you actually made it to closing time.
As you finally close the door to your home there was only one thought going through your brain. And what was that though you might ask? Well, it was obvious. Go. To. Bed. Today was a tiring day both mentally and physically, you were exhausted and the only remedy to that would be sleep. With that thought in mind you made your way to your closet and grabbed a set of your most comfy clothes and made your way to the bathroom to take a quick shower. Even though you wish you could just change and go to bed you felt filthy and knew you would not be able to get comfortable in bed when you felt sticky with syrups and the smell of coffee that spilled on you in one of the many mistakes you made today was lingering on you like a badge of shame.
While in the shower you really struggled to not just sit in the blanket that was the warm water cascading down your back and just rest your eyes, but you knew that was probably not a good idea considering how little sleep you had and how heavy your eyes felt. You quickly finished washing up and grabbed your towel now with a mantra repeating in your head “the faster we get dry the faster we go to bed” over and over again in order to resist just sitting there with a towel wrapped around yourself and just falling asleep right then and there.
Finaly, you just had to put on your last piece of clothing and you would be fully dressed. As your hand reached out for it on the counter you paused as you felt as though you had heard something. You waited to listen and then you finally could hear it, the sound of your glass balcony door closing. Now normally a person hearing this would probably start freaking out and start screaming but no, not you and this is because you had a good idea who it was considering you had given them permission to come to your house whenever they wanted.
On the other side of the door you could hear the soft soothing sound of his bells and voice as he called out to you. “My lady?” Normally you were quite pleased to have him with you but today was not one of those days, you were exhausted and honestly just wanted to sleep. You quickly put on your last article of clothing on and opened the bathroom door “I’m over here Pierrot” you could see him freeze for just a second as he looked at you freshly out of the shower before he spoke to you “ah, hello my lady I was hoping we could walk together to the circus!”
He had this look in his eyes of absolute adoration for you as he spoke and you knew the reason behind this. It had been a couple of days after you had confessed to him and you guys had become an item. There was so much love in his eyes that it would be hard to kick him out so you could sleep but maybe he could stay as you dry your hair but today you definitely were staying home. “Pierrot I’m sorry but I really need to get some sleep I don’t have the energy to go out today but if you want you can stay with me as I dry my hair” you gave him an apologetic smile as you looked up at him. “of course my lady, I should have noticed you seemed a bit drowsy. Please, let me dry your hair you can just sit down and I can do it for you” he reached his hand out to a hair dryer that was on a table then walked over and sat down on the bed patting next to him signaling to you that he wanted you to sit down.
You were so tired that the thought of drying your hair was something that you were dreading to do, so him offering to do it for you was welcoming. You sat down turning your back to him so that he would have access to your hair. He carefully ran his hands through your hair before turning on the hair dryer. As you sat there in comfortable silence almost drifting off to sleep multiple times a though came to mind “um wait Pierrot don’t you have to go to the circus? I don’t want you to be late to your performance you can go if you want, I can do the rest myself I don’t want you to get in trouble with Jester.”
“My lady, it warms my heart that you would worry for me but Luckly I do not have a performance today. I was hoping we could have had a date together and shown you to my living quarters as you have shown me yours, I thought it would only be fair.” You didn’t even have to turn around to know that he was blushing as he spoke those words. After becoming a couple you and him had agreed that he would become more open with you slowly but surely after all you had already uncovered that he and the other members of the circus were not human and still decided that you would want to be with him. Most likely Pierrot wanted to show you his home, his space, a place where no one but him stayed in. A trailer where he had all his things and where he felt safe unmasking himself, a place that represented himself a place that was personal to him, so he wanted to show it to you. Though unmasking in front of you was not something that he had worked up the courage to do yet this was the next best thing because it felt like he was exposing a side of him that no one has seen of him except for maybe the members of his troop that he considered to be his family.
You understood what it had meant when he said that, After all you knew the members of the circus to be quite guarded of their personal living spaces and would not let anyone near it. He wanted to show you more of him of his life of himself. “Maybe I can visit you tomorrow I would love for you to show me your room my love” that last bit had slipped out, you had not yet had the courage to call him in such an affectionate manner except inside of your head but your sleep deprived and exhausted mind didn’t catch it.
He did. He caught it, he heard it and felt as though his heart was the warmest it had ever been, maybe except for when you had the courage to kiss him on the cheek, that was a moment he would never forget. Pierrot loved you so much and had the patience of a saint when it came to waiting for you, he would saver every affectionate moment he had with you and would wait till you were ready to advance to the next steps in the relationship.
He finished drying your hair turning off the dryer and standing up to put it on the desk with soft clack. He turned to look at you noticing how much more tired you looked after he had pampered you “my lady it looks like I’ll have to leave you to sleep now, I do hope you dream of me” he grinned at that last bit before he started to make his way to the balcony door but you stopped him graving his wrist leading him and pushing him towards the foot of the bed “you said you don’t have anything to do today so just stay with me”
The feeling you had of Pierrot drying your hair had been so comforting, feeling his clawed hand carefully running through your hair and scalp had made you not want that comfort to slip away so in your sleep deprived mind you had had thought to yourself why let him go? Why not just have him stay? It felt nice having him there like the world had become calm and safe by just having him there. like the warm feeling of a blanket straight out the dryer being wrapped around yourself and you did not want that to be taken away from you in your current state, so you grabbed him.
You pushed him till the back of his legs met the foot of your bed. His eyes had become wide with confusion on his face as you did so and he looked even more surprised as you then pushed him onto the bed with you falling on top of him.
There had been moments where he had done this to you, like the day he had to tell you to come back to the circus for your own safety but you have never laid on top of him, no this was new this was something that you initiated and the thought of this had made Pierrot freeze awkwardly with his hands hovering and twitching above you unsure of what to do.
You on the other hand had your hands and face to his chest, you bean to sleepily rub your face against him then snake your hands around his body with your palms open and flat against him as you do so in a sleepy and slow manner feeling as his chest began to rise and fall again in a shaky manner. You then squeeze him in a comforting hug and then look up to him, his face was so cute you could see he was loving every second of this he gave you such a cute goofy grin when your eyes met. You began to lift yourself off his chest and come eye level to him.
You slowly lowered yourself till your lips touched, you held yourself there for a second feeling as Pierrots hands finally landed on your back embracing you in a warm hug. You pulled back finally looking at his beautiful golden eyes and flushed face before lowering yourself back into your original spot on his chest holding him in a hug hearing his heart beating in his ribcage as you spoke your words is a sleepy slurred manner “Goodnight Pierrot.” finally succumbing to sleep.
Pierrot lay there with his arms still around you and his heart beating faster than he thought it ever could. Pierrot was feeling many things especially because that was the first kiss between you two. He was blushing like a mad man with the most wide and sharp grin on his face as he held you in his arms “Mine, my beloved” he spoke as he began to rub your back carefully with his hands in a soothing motion as you sleep before he then decided to join you
His breathing slowed into a rhythmic sound and the only sound that could be heard in the quiet room was the sound of two people sleeping in a warm embrace.
Who knew that being so sleep deprived would have given you the courage to do something like that, you definitely didn’t know. You ended up waking up in his arms looking up to see a sleeping Pierrot. Knowing that he felt so comfortable and safe with you as you do with him to let his guard down and sleep. It was so perfect and so warm, so you lay there looking up at the sleeping man not wanting to wake him as you wait for the moment that he opens his piercing golden sleepy eyes to look down at you. When he opened them, he looked drowsy and had hearts in his eyes as they landed on you.
your finally usher out a shy and soft “good morning.” To him.
“Good morning my love” he spoke in a beep voice that was affected by sleep, giving his voice a huskier tone.
You both lay there unmoving from your spots just enjoying the feeling of being in each other’s embrace.
Maybe today wasn’t so bad after all.