ONE CHICAGO APPRECIATION WEEK. ↳ day three:  favourite relationship.

Chapter Three: Breakfast Sweater

Hello hello Upstead friends!!! Chapter three of my 5+1 Things is here!! There's so much about this chapter that I'm excited for y'all to read, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Story Summary: Five times over the course of Hailey and Jay’s partnership that Hailey wears Jay’s clothing, and the one time Jay wears hers. Kind of.

Chapter Three Summary: Jay woke up in bed alone, but he found Hailey in their kitchen, making waffles and wearing his sweater. Includes kisses, strawberries, and whipped cream. [Engaged Upstead, pre-9x04]

“Just a t-shirt in the kitchen, with no make-up and a million other things that I could look at my whole life. A love like that makes a man have second thoughts; maybe some things last forever after all.” — Luke Combs, Forever After All

Jay drifted to consciousness slowly, his body warm and lazy. He was first aware of the sunlight blasting through the skylight and then his incessantly buzzing phone on the nightstand. It wasn’t a hard decision to let the call ring out—it was his first day off in weeks; they could leave a message—and bury his face in his pillow instead.

He’d never been a drowsy person, especially after Afghanistan, but lately, he’d been reminded of what genuine rest felt like. Hailey slept cuddled up to him every night, and the gentle touch of her hands—even how her hair tickled his chin and her cold feet nudged his calves—soothed something deep in him. But thinking about this peace he’d found with Hailey still felt too big and unattainable. Too hard for him to put into words even though they were engaged.

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