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aesthetic-solar-space · 1 year

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Olivia Pope Appreciation Post!

Olivia Carolyn Pope!

She not only worked at the White House, and created her own form, but she put presidents in office. She doesn’t just fix problems, she fixes people.

She seems to have been mentored by both Cyrus and Verna which after her vast education, molded her into who she is today.

Throughout the seasons we see Olivia go through hell in back not only for her clients, those she loves, but also for herself. She will do whatever is necessary and her gut is never wrong so with those two pieces together she dominates Washington D.C.

Through the seasons we do see Olivia I’m relationships, even though she says in season one she can never have normal.. the other major factor being “All Roads Lead Back To Fitz”

Edison Davis: off screen the two have a past relationship where they lived together in Georgetown and Edison even proposed. However it ended, and years later they begin to reconnect- but Olivia can’t open up to him, especially not about the past relationship she had that’s haunting her (Aka Fitz). Even with Olivia being an emotional stonewall Edison proposes again, and Olivia says No. this second proposal shows Olivia that she wants a difficult, painful love rather than an easy and normal one.

Fitz Grant: Fitz needed help with his election campaign while on the trail and Cyrus having met Olivia at law school, knew just the person to bring in. They very quickly and easily developed feelings for each other, and as much as they wanted to be together Olivia knew that an affair would be political suicide for Fitz. He was persistent though, and after being elected he told her that he loved her. Even after Olivia left the White House due to Mellie knowing about her and Fitz, there love ans tension never stopped. They didn’t become official and public until much later after Fitz divorced Mellie. However things weren’t perfect, when Fitz proposed she at first said no - then yes. Then later she gave back the ring. Fitz did however forgive Olivia and move her into the White House, however once again not so long after this - Olivia feels trapped and like she doesn’t want the life she’s living. So she leaves Fitz and the White House. From there the relationship went back to being an off again on again thing for awhile. When Fitz moves back to D.C. to help Olivia after his presidency is over, and she has left the White House which is now in the hands of Millie. It’s left open as to if they get back together officially or what happens. But in my mind they do in fact get back together and though there life would never be “normal”, Olivia learns that the difficult and painful romance she thought she deserved was also a soft and sweet - safe place.

Jake Ballard: The two met a few months after the death of Verna and the sparks ignited fast. From there it was an on and off again thing. The relationship is complicated in many ways in true Olivia fashion but a major one being that Olivia is often seen going back and forth between Jake and Fitz. Jake is shown to know Olivia more than she knows herself, to know her darkness and not shy away. She is very open and vulnerable with him. Once Fitz has been re-elected Jake and Olivia go to an island for two months and come back boyfriend and girlfriend and stay that way until something catastrophic happens in Olivia’s life. When it’s over she doesn’t want to see him or Fitz as she tries to think of them as her past while she tried to move forward. Awhile later Jake tells her about how he’s in love with her but that if she loves Fitz, she should be with him. She does just that but after her breakup, her and Jake rekindle, though everything seems to be just physical until Jake gets engaged. However the engagement is just a cover and he tells Olivia as much. Jake asks if Olivia wants to be with him, and she nods and kisses him. However Olivia receives a threat that Jake must marry Vanessa or he would be killed.

Throughout the show there were a few other small romances but overall those above were the big three.

Trivia

- She paces circles when she is troubled by something that she considers a real problem, they become perfect circles if she is really worried

- In highschool she was on the swim team

- She has one rule for all clients: “Do not lie. They lie, all bets are off.”

- She knows 18 languages, including Spanish, Farsi, Russian, Swahili, Cantonese, and Urdu

- The character of Olivia Pope is inspired by the real life crisis management consultant: Judy Smith

- The final scene in the Final shows a portrait of Olivia Pope in the second floor of the National Portrait Gallery which is only reserved for portraits of presidents of the United States of America. This leads us to believe that sometime after Mellie, Olivia became president.

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honoka-marierose · 5 months

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TOKYO

It was 1954. The Korean War’s armistice had been signed, and David M. Rosen, 24, a member of the United States Air Force, had returned to Japan, where he’d spent most of his time during the conflict. After a brief but unsuccessful attempt at starting an America-Japan photo art business from the U.S., Rosen moved to Tokyo looking to start fresh but remain in the photo world.

“At that point in time,” Rosen said in a rare 1996 interview for the video game magazine Next Generation, “the Japanese had a great need for ID photos. You needed an ID photo for school applications, for rice ration cards, for railway cards, and for employment. My idea was to adapt and import those little automated photo booths from the U.S. to Japan.”

For the next two years, Rosen dug in, learning all about the intricacies weaved into Japanese regulations. Import licenses back then were divided into three categories: “‘Absolute Necessities,’” explained Rosen, “‘Non-Necessity But Desirable,’ and ‘Luxury.’” So as Rosen muddled his way through licensing red tape with his Photorama booths, he began to witness the Japanese economy spike thanks in part to U.S. military spending during the Korean War.

“So around ’56 or ’57, I recognized that there was starting to be some disposable income.”

Rosen Enterprises

Overworked businessmen were finely giving themselves a break from what was then a six-and-a-half-day work week and spending their salary on games such as “Pachinko, dance studios, bars, and cabarets.” Rosen had no interest in these, however.

According to author Ken Horowitz’s book, The Sega Arcade Revolution: A History in 62 Games, Rosen still had fond memories of “penny arcade games” on Coney Island during his childhood years, playing spring-loaded, non-electric pinball machines. Coin-operated arcade games had yet to reach Japan’s mainstream culture, remaining only on military bases.

Rosen had no real tech background, but he was a savvy businessman, and he quickly identified an opening in the Japanese market. With the help of his wife, Masako, who he married in 1954, Rosen, as Horowitz explains, “transitioned to importing luxury items to Japan, later including coin-operated games, which were wildly successful.”

“We were stripping the cabinets off the old machines, just keeping the mechanisms and creating a new jungle environments from scratch.” —David Rosen

The word “luxury” in this quote is important, since it meant having to build a convincing case so that Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) would grant him a license. As Rosen recalled: “It took me over one year with a lot of effort — and certainly a lot of introductions — to convince MITI that coin-ops would be good for leisure. Finally, they granted me a license for $100,000, which meant I could purchase $100,000 worth of coin-ops, and bring them to Japan.”

The American coin-op game market was stagnant in these years, Chicago being its manufacturing epicenter. Rosen flew back to America and was able to find a stockpile of used coin-op machines in various warehouses. Rosen paid between $200 to $1,000 for these used games, but after two months of use in Japan, Rosen had made his money back. “The air gun games were in big supply and yet very popular in Japan,” explained Rosen. “We were stripping the cabinets off the old machines, just keeping the mechanisms and creating new jungle environments from scratch.”

At this stage, Rosen Enterprises started to solidify its presence, leaning on its past Photorama success to build its network: “…we worked out a very good relationship with various movie studios, primarily Toho and [Shochiku], so they made their locations available to us.”

Competition eventually came. “I probably had the civilian marketplace to myself for about two years,” said Rosen, “but then other companies learned how we were importing and under what classification.” Primarily, there were two main competitors, Taito (which at the time focused more on jukeboxes) and Nihon Goraku Bussan, the latter now more historically known as Service Games.

Service Games

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I’ve started with Rosen, but the story of Sega truly starts in Hawaii, in 1945, with three partners ponying up $50,000 to start Service Games — game distributor Irving Bromberg, Martin Bromley (Irving’s son) and James Humpert. Like Rosen, the three men had been a part of the American military, and after the end of World War II, Service Games bought the Army’s slot and amusement machines and shipped them to military bases in Japan and around the world.

By February 1952, Service Games had expanded to military bases in Japan, but, as Horowitz wisely documents, the American government, in 1951, had passed the Transportation of Gambling Devices Act (or the Johnson Act). Suddenly, the slot machines Service Games had were illegal to ship anywhere the law prohibited gambling. The Johnson Act even banned such machines on military bases.

The loophole was to go international. For the rest of the 1950s, Service Games straddled the legal lines, maintaining a presence in Panama, South Korea, South Vietnam and the Philippines, selling both slot and amusement machines to American military bases around the world. While Rosen Enterprises developed deeper business roots in Japan, Service Games remained in fringe markets — global, but extremely limited from a partnership standpoint.

By the end of the decade, however, Service Games’s brand image took a hit. Horowitz writes that the company “was accused of everything from bribery to tax evasion and coercion.” By 1960, Service Games Japan had been “banned from U.S. bases in Japan and the Philippines,” eventually dissolving in May the same year.

Two Japanese companies swooped in to take over this vacated coin-op market share: Nihon Goraku Bussan Kabushiki Kaisha (Japanese Amusement Products Company, Inc.) and Nihon Kikai Seizo KK (Japanese Machine Manufacturers Co., Inc). By 1964, these two companies had merged.

So where does the name Sega come from?

Well, as early as April 1954, Service Games had been using the name “Sega” on its refurbished coin-op amusement and slot machines. Once Service Games dissolved, the name was carried over by the two Japanese companies, with Nihon Kikai Seizo capitalizing on the name’s already established brand awareness by filing trademark applications for “Sega” in 1962 according to game historian Keith Smith. In June 1964, Nihon Goraku Bussan chose to acquire Nihon Kikai Seizo, solidifying its place in the coin-op marketplace — and causing Rosen Enterprises to worry about its future.

The birth of Sega Enterprises

“[Nihon Goraku] was by far the larger company, and Sega was their brand name,” admitted Rosen. But Rosen Enterprises was not in trouble. Rather, in the mid-1960s, Rosen saw a stagnation across the entire coin-op game marketplace, believing (in Horowitz’s words) that “the games being released were far too alike.” Rosen believed “it was time for Sega to begin creating new games.”

In July 1965, Nihon Goraku Bussan acquired Rosen Enterprises, but the acquisition acted more like a merger. For starters, David Rosen was placed as CEO and managing director, his wife Masako also taking a director role. Rosen and others also agreed it was best to ax the manufacturing of slot machines from their bottom line, most likely to cut away from the illegal accusations leveled upon Service Games in the past. As a final touch, they combined names, officially becoming Sega Enterprises, Ltd.

With renewed company strength, Rosen pursued a way for Sega to create its own game. As video game historian Alexander Smith describes so clearly, around the time of the merger, Namco founder and inventor Masaya Nakamura had found success installing rooftop amusement parks for Matsuya and Mitsukoshi department stores — this may explain why in just about every department store in Japan the top floor is a game center — and had invented a three-player game called Periscope.

Years later, Rosen explained Periscope concisely: “It was a simple game. You stood at one end and shot at cutout ships running on a chain through a periscope… The aiming device looked like a real periscope and the player had to release torpedoes in time to hit the ships. It sounds simple today, but at the time it was somewhat revolutionary.”

Nakamura’s version was built for three participants to compete at the same time, but that made for a massive booth, which meant most department stores did not have enough room for it. Instead of giving up on the idea, Rosen adapted Nakamura’s game into a one-player unit. The cost went down, but Periscope was still far more expensive than other games of its kind. It took some coaxing, but Sega was able to convince operators to charge 25 cents for each go. This, Rosen admitted, “was a turning point for coin-ops,” and launched Sega into “the export business.”

For many Americans, a roll of quarters became a necessity before heading to the arcade. For that, you can thank Sega Enterprises.

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adventuresinmonsterland · 6 months

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Transitional Home Office - Freestanding

Mid-sized transitional freestanding desk with carpeting and a beige floor in the study, which has gray walls but no fireplace.

#antique rug #bijar rug #david rosen #linen chair #mens study #oak desk #wingback chair

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americania · 7 months

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Transitional Home Office - Freestanding

Mid-sized transitional freestanding desk with carpeting and a beige floor in the study, which has gray walls but no fireplace.

#antique rug #bijar rug #david rosen #linen chair #mens study #oak desk #wingback chair

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missperegrines · 7 months

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Transitional Home Office - Freestanding

Mid-sized transitional freestanding desk with carpeting and a beige floor in the study, which has gray walls but no fireplace.

#antique rug #bijar rug #david rosen #linen chair #mens study #oak desk #wingback chair

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rafikirder · 7 months

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Transitional Home Office - Freestanding

Mid-sized transitional freestanding desk with carpeting and a beige floor in the study, which has gray walls but no fireplace.

#antique rug #bijar rug #david rosen #linen chair #mens study #oak desk #wingback chair

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jimbosplaidshirt · 8 months

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Transitional Home Office - Freestanding

Mid-sized transitional freestanding desk with carpeting and a beige floor in the study, which has gray walls but no fireplace.

#antique rug #bijar rug #david rosen #linen chair #mens study #oak desk #wingback chair

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minawritesfanfic · 8 months

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David Rosen x Gn!Reader

A Better Version

Word Count: 2,544

Summary: You attend your cousins wedding and find yourself in the presence of David Rosen. Despite the wedding being over and having no cases that coincide, you and David continue to meet under the guise of ‘getting along as in-laws’.

Prologue

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I stood at the open bar, drowning out the festive cheers and music. Weddings were lovely and all but when you’re single and the cousin of a wannabe matchmaker and bride, wedding festivities are just the beginning of what you’ll experience that day.

My cousin Mackenzie had even given me a plus one just so I’d bring a date despite her limiting the guest list to long-term partners only, but she knew me well enough that even if she paid someone to be my plus one I’d wriggle my way out of it and show up alone. Speaking of the devil, I took a gentle sip of my drink to avoid her gaze. I could feel her eyes drilling holes into the back of my head, I certainly knew better than to meet her gaze right now. Thankfully all this wedding hoopla had her plenty distracted and I could down as much free alcohol as I pleased. Though I was surprised to hear my name, for a moment I thought it was Kenzie but when they called my name again I could more distinctly hear the familiar and silky voice call me.

“Well, well, well. Fancy seeing you here,” I turned glancing over my shoulder, setting my martini glass down on the counter. To my surprise, I found the one and only United States Attorney General, David Rosen. I grinned, raising my eyebrow slightly in confusion.

“Yet here I am, but why are you?” I quipped back facing him more directly as I leaned back against the bar.

“Well considering this is my brother’s wedding, it would be odd if i wasn’t here. Hell, I wouldn’t miss this for the world, why are you here?” He asked, waving the bartender over for a drink of his own.

“Guess that makes us in-laws, somehow? The bride is my cousin. Anyways this is really fucking weird, so I’m going to continue getting drunk before Kenzie comes over here to set me up with one of your brothers’ friends or something.” I sighed into my drink, swishing the rich blue liquid in my glass, and took a slow long sip, enjoying the sweet flavour and slight tang with a satisfied sigh.

“What a small world we live in huh, this is definitely going to complicate my home and work life.” He joked taking a brief sip from the old-fashioned he ordered, I let out a laugh and set my glass down.

“It most certainly will, imagine explaining to your sister-in-law that you had to arrest and prosecute their favourite cousin. Fast track path to never meeting your future nieces and nephews,” I jeered with a snort.

“Hopefully that won’t have to be the case if that band of delinquents you work with stay in line with the law so I won't have to.” I scoffed as a lopsided grin grew on his face as he stared down at me, I noticed that his eyes no longer held that glazed-over and slightly irritated gaze. Rather now he looked at me with a gentle aloof yet still unreadable gaze.

His entire aura had changed honestly, normally he radiated tenacity, poise, and complete utter fucking arrogance. He’s also always had a clean, rigid, but impeccable sense of style too. A style that was especially evident now, his appearance remained clean but more gentle and calm. He wore pale green pants that matched his jacket, a white collared shirt, and a lavender tie that matched my outfit oddly enough. We both turned around upon hearing a chipper voice from behind, that called out my name.

“I see you did all the hard work for me, hi Davy, we’re both really glad you came,” Kenzie said with a bright smile on her face as she hugged David, her reception dress moving fluidly as she did so.

“Kenzie you did not, I practically work with him.” I hissed, folding my arms and glaring at her which she ignored as she rolled her eyes.

“Great so you already know each other, that’s why I picked him. Isn’t it cute, two lawyers defending the law side by side? It’s like a fairy tale romance, plus…” She leaned into me whispering in my ear, “I see how you’re checking him out and that dopey grin on your face, you can’t tell me you at least don’t think he’s charming.” I scoffed rolling my eyes and looking over at David who leaned against the counter with an amused and slightly confused grin on his face.

“Kenzie can’t we just celebrate your wedding and not play matchmaker? I quite enjoy the single life and don’t need you to keep setting me up. Especially when we conflict with each other at work.”

“Not so sorry to intrude but what is this about?” David butted in still looking quite amused.

“Davy, I told you that I had someone I wanted to introduce to you. I knew there was a possibility of you knowing each other, hadn’t expected you to so this is great. You two have fun chatting on this blind date, I have a reception to host.” She finished with a squeal and practically skipped away, I turned back around and signaled the bartender for another drink since mine now sat empty.

“I’m sorry about that, she’s been trying to set me up for years now. ‘Are you never going to have kids?' she asks, ‘We’ll never get to go on double dates!’ she whines. I’ll make sure she leaves you alone about this, I’m sorry for bringing you her nonsense.” I rambled on as I grabbed the freshly served drink I picked it up and ate the mint it came with.

“I don’t quite mind the idea of a blind date though, already blurring the lines between work and home. What's one step further?” I looked away from my drink at him, frankly startled by his words, seeing how flustered I was he continued, “I’m saying I want to continue this blind date set up with you. You aren’t half bad and I dare say I’m not either.”

“I... okay Woah woah woah, can we take a step back? I don’t even, what?”

“It’s a simple yes or no, is this a date or no?”

“No? Wait, yes, I mean yes. I’m just wow, speechless to say the least. This day just got way more interesting, okay so how do we go about this date then? I doubt you're much of a dancer,” I stammered slowly, regaining my composure as I gestured to the lively dance floor bustling with people.

“I may not like it but that doesn't mean I’m not good at it. What about you, are you out dancing in the rain during your free time?”

“Don’t knock it until you try it, but since you’re not averse to dancing mind joining me on the dance floor then, Davy?” I teased setting down my drink and walking away backward from the bar towards the ballroom floor.

He smiled and set down his drink to follow me, a Frank Sinatra song played on the speakers. I fully embraced the upbeat tune, my shoes clicking on the floor as I danced loosely switching my weight from foot to foot. He joined me following my pace, despite the earlier flirting we were both still unsure of what the hell was going on. Maybe it was the almost three martini’s I’d had but I felt daring as I grabbed his hand and linked fingers with him. We stared into each other's eyes for a beat just swaying back and forth, and slowly we snaked our arms around each other.

“So do you really dance out in the rain? I could tell you were a fascinating character, what other things do you do?”

“I do, it helps clear my mind and ease my tension. I also enjoy puzzles, and especially hand-making things. Whether it be food, crafts, or renovating my kitchen all on my own. Though I can’t bake much, my pies are superb. What about you?” He looked up with his lips slightly parted as he thought of an answer, the outer edges of his eyes crinkling as he did.

“I read quite a bit mostly sociology and theorize about it, I also do the occasional crossword puzzle with my morning cup of coffee.” I bit back a laugh as he raised a curious eyebrow at me.

“That’s exactly what I would’ve expected you to say, let me guess your go-to coffee choice is a red eye?” He rolled his eyes as a cheeky grin played on my face.

“Close but wrong, it’s an Americano.”

“How bland, I’m more of a Cappuccino person. I’ll never know how you all drink something so unsweetened and lifeless.”

“That’s what creamer and caramel drizzle are for, besides I’d prefer not to have an upset stomach from the gallons of milk you likely have poured in with a teaspoon of coffee.”

“Oh! I see how it is, that creamy texture and sweet taste is worth it though, sorry to hear your delicate stomach can’t handle a wee bit of milk.” We both laughed and a comfortable silence fell over us as we still danced entangled in each other.

Eventually, we moved away from the dance floor and sat at an unoccupied table drinking, eating, and chatting away. David was surprisingly quite fun to talk to and good at carrying conversations and was overall a lot more interesting than I’d first thought. He had a German Shepard named Lorelai, he was a homebody, and he wholly preferred chance meetings way more than he did using the up-and-coming online dating websites. It felt like mere minutes had passed when the wedding had come to an end and it was time to head home, though I wasn’t quite ready to end our date just yet.

We stood side by side outside the castle Kenzie chose as a venue's gates waiting for our rides, I leaned against him with my head resting on his shoulder. The Virginian breeze rustled my clothes and my hair, and the chatter of the other guests waiting for their rides floated around us. I tuned most of it out as all of the guests mindlessly rambled about whatever boring drama was going on in their lives, something about who slept with whose wife this time. Considering such a topic was an annoyingly large portion of what I deal with at work, I felt exhausted from only partially listening. I sat my head up and looked over at David, a dreamy look cast over his sunken face.

“Hey David, what do you say we do something fun? Wedding food is nice, but I’d kill for a burger right now.”

“With some curly fries and a shake, now you’ve got me hungry. I can’t imagine there’s anywhere open this late,” he said checking his watch.

“You’d be surprised, there’s this place close to my hotel that is open 24 hours. I didn’t get to try their burgers but the shakes are spectacular, so are you in?” I asked turning to face him fully as a taxi pulled up in front of us, he looked from me to the taxi as he thought.

“I’m in as long, just don’t you steal any of my fries.” He said opening the taxi door, then turned back to me.

“How gentlemanly of you Davy,” I teased again with a smile before getting in.

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“So after seeing her in that aquarium I made it my dream to become a mermaid, I even took swim lessons, practiced breath control, and learned different tricks with a tail on for years! If I didn’t fall in love with the law, we’d be meeting behind the glass wall of an aquarium.” I babbled on occasionally pausing due to my fits of giggles, David laughed along with me as I reminisced.

"Well, I must say, I'm relieved you didn't become a mermaid. Regardless of how funny it would have been to see you frolicking through the water with seashells and a tail, I much prefer seeing you in a courtroom advocating for your client. I do find it pretty admirable that you put so much passion into pursuing your dream, who knows though, maybe one day you could incorporate your love of the ocean into your legal career, somehow?"

“I wish, can’t even begin to think of how I would do that. What about you though, what's your wildest dream?” I rolled my head to face him, we both sat on the floor resting our heads on the base of the bed, an empty bottle of wine and a takeaway box of fries squished between us.

“Hmm, I don’t know. I was never really sure what I wanted to do or be, it’s honestly still crazy that I even have the job I do now. Law came out of nowhere and it just worked, I was this close to being a real estate agent.” He said with a soft but hearty laugh, his eyes were droopy as he stared up at the ceiling he yawned into his hand before looking over at me.

“Oh wow, Mr. Rosen the real estate agent, I’d let you sell me an overpriced house any time.” I laughed weakly, it was already three in the morning and it was obvious we were both exhausted. “David, would you like to sleep over?”

“Hmm, oh wow I hadn’t realized it was so late. If you would have me, I’d love to. Though I do wish I had something better to sleep in.” He sighed as he rose to his feet and extended a hand to help me up. I accepted his hand and rose.

“I doubt I have any for you to wear, just sleep naked,” I said with a yawn as I stumbled to the closet found my suitcase, and grabbed the pajamas that sat unworn, I just heard him hum in response behind me.

My pajamas weren’t anything special, just my favourite oversized shirt and biker shorts. I carefully took off my clothes and hung them in the closet, then I put on my pajamas. As I stepped away from the closet I found Rosen on the couch with the pathetic blanket they decorate the end of the bed with.

“I was assuming you’d join me on the bed, but who knows maybe this ‘comfortable’ couch and ‘warm’ blanket make for the best sleep,” I said as I stood over him with a hand on my hip.

“Well, I wouldn’t assume since this isn’t my hotel and with how drunk we are this seemed like the best option to avoid awkwardness at work.”

“I’m assuming you’d join me because we’re drunk, which is mostly my fault so the least I could do is offer you a nice bed to sleep in. Besides, if you don’t make it awkward, I won’t make it awkward. Now come on.” I grabbed a hold of his hands and pulled him up, dragging him to the bed with me.

We climbed into the bed and found comfort on our respective sides, I laid on my stomach and rested my head inwards. David had his back to me, I could see that his back was freckled lightly in the same way his face was. I just smiled and closed my eyes, finally getting my long-deserved beauty rest.

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