Chloe

+ modern au

new neighbor!aang who's so helpful by carrying your boxes from the moving truck to your front door. he gives you a sweet and easy smile, says it's no big deal as he hefts a near fifteen pound box over his shoulders like it's nothing. and then he's gonna climb three flights of stairs easy as pie, unaware that you're already thinking about climbing him like you're on monkey bars. if you wanna walk in front and you give him some vague excuse as to why you can't, he's gonna eat up that silly excuse like egg custard. you stay walking behind him because you became instantly enthralled by the way his muscles ripple beneath peaches and cream skin. the sight almost makes you walk into a wall but you will admit that to nobody except the god you believe in.

"I'm aang," he tells you. "i live right next door." he points to the closed door directly beside yours and you have to reach inside yourself and find all the home training you were taught so you don't concoct a scheme that would end up with your thighs squishing his cheeks.

you tell him your name and you'd like to think the look he gives you is just a passing glance but his wide gray eyes look too intent for just a innocent appraisal.

you invite him over for dessert and he's leaving with scratches down his back.