Boyfriend Satoru whose favorite place to sleep is your lap
People thought Satoru Gojoās guilty pleasure was just sweet treats or collecting digimon merch, or max to max staying awake until four in the morning because he got too invested in some physics forum argument with strangers online.
Ummm not quite so. You see, his actual guilty pleasure was you.
More specifically, your lap!
It had gotten to the point where people around campus had stopped asking questions. If somebody couldnāt find Satoru after class, they already knew where to look.
Under the old maple tree near the literature building or in the back corner of the library. Sometimes even on the grass outside the engineering block. Literally anywhere you happened to be sitting.
Because if you were there, chances were that the smartest student on campus was currently asleep with his face buried against your stomach.
āYou found me,ā youād tease every single time.
āYour pheromones gave you away,ā heād mumble, already closing his eyes.
āI told you to stop saying that ugh.ā
āWhatever, scoot over.ā
Then heād press one lazy kiss against your cheek, another against your jaw if he was feeling particularly clingy, mumble something about being exhausted, and before you even got the chance to respondā¦
Heād flop.
Right into your lap.
Like a bigggg fluffy cat, just like the one your aunt has. The first few months of dating him, you thought it was just because he liked physical affection.
Which was true. Satoru could barely keep his hands off you. He was always stealing kisses in hallways, wrapping an arm around your waist while you walked between lectures, sniffing your hair because they āsmelled better than any fragrance on planet,ā intertwining your fingers beneath classroom desks, when in reality his shampoo costs ten times more than your drugstore ones.
Pheromones huh?
The PDA was almost embarrassing. But then you realized something. He didnāt actually sleep well. Not properly at least. His eyes were far too sensitive, his brain never really stopped.
There were lectures to top, research papers to finish, exams to ace. His familyās company constantly needed him because apparently being terrifyingly intelligent wasnāt enough. He also had meetings to attend, calls to answer, reports to skim through.
Even when he looked relaxed, you could almost hear the gears turning inside his head.
Heād text you at three in the morning.
Satoru: āYou home?ā
Y/N: āNo, at my other boyfriendās houseā
Satoru: āWow, what position are you guys in?ā
Y/N: āCuddlefucking actuallyā
Satoru: āHahahahhaah not funnyā
Y/N: āWhy are YOU awake?ā
Satoru: āCan I come over? Canāt sleepā
It would usually give you butterflies but most times, it broke your heart a little. Because the only place where his mind ever seemed to quiet downā¦
Was with you.
āI sleep better when youāre around.ā
After that, sleepovers became an unspoken routine. Every other night, sometimes three nights in a row. Youād both pretend to study which would last maybe twenty minutes? Then heād crawl over without saying a word, hook his arms around your waist, rest his head against your thighs andā¦
Dead asleep.
Sometimes for twenty minutes, sometimes for an hour. The ridiculous part was how refreshed heād be afterward. Heād wake up stretching like a cat too.
āI feel incredible.ā
People walking past the maple tree barely blinked anymore. They did keep staring at you two though.
Girls who had spent months trying to ask him out would slow down as they walked past. Guys whoād wanted your number would glance over with obvious disappointment.
Even a handful of boys whoād openly flirted with Satoru would sigh dramatically as they watched him sleeping peacefully against you.
Some looked jealous.
Some looked confused.
Most looked like they wanted to know what kind of magic or spell you casted on him. You wanted to tell them that this 6ā3 was just clingy.
Sometimes your legs would go numb after thirty minutes, your back would ache, your assignment would remain half finished because every time you tried to shift, heād instinctively tighten his arms around your waist but youād rarely wake him up, loved him too much to ever wake him up.
āā¦Toru.ā
āMhmā¦ā
āMy foot canāt feel anything.ā
āā¦Five more minutes.ā
āYou said that ten minutes ago.ā
āMustāve been your other boyfriend.ā
āWoahhh, holy comebackā
You always gave him those extra ā5 minutesā The library was somehow even worse.
Heād quietly pull out the chair beside yours, stare at you until you looked up, smile like heād won the lottery, then slowly lower his head onto your lap beneath the long study table.
āYou cannot sleep here Toruā
āI can.ā
āYou absolutely cannot.ā
āI already am.ā
āā¦Satoru.ā
Three minutes laterā¦youād hear his soft snores.āā¦Unbelievable.ā
Youād spend the next half hour pretending to annotate lecture notes while gently nudging his shoulder every few minutes before anyone noticed.
āToru.ā
āā¦ā
āToru.ā
āā¦ā
Then there were rainy days. Heād show up soaked because heād forgotten an umbrella again.
āYou own five umbrellas.ā
āI forgot all five.ā
Youād sigh, dry his hair with your cardigan because he refused to carry towels like a functioning adult, and five minutes later heād already be asleep with damp white hair spread across your lap while rain tapped softly against the windows.
Or during movie nights.
Everyone else would be invested in whatever thriller your friends picked, meanwhile Satoru would somehow end up sideways across the couch with his head on your thighs before the opening credits even finished.
āYou missed the entire movie.ā
āI heard everything.ā
āThey dropped easter eggs about Luna being the killer in first 15 minutes. ā
āā¦There was a killer?ā
Or during exam season. Heād confidently announce that he was pulling an all nighter.
Youād nod.
An hour later heād appear outside your dorm carrying three textbooks and a coffee. āI came to study.ā
āYou came to nap.ā
āNo, I didnātā or so heād lie.
And just the same story with the old setup, ten minutes in and heād be fast asleep. Sometimes youād stop reading altogether just to look at him. His eyebrows finally relaxed, his shoulders no longer tense, his breathing slow and even.
For those twenty or thirty minutes, the boy who constantly carried the weight of expectations, perfection, and everyone elseās future lookedā¦
Young, beautiful, kind: Your boyfriend.
Sweet lil Toru
And every single time, without fail, heād wake up blinking slowly before smiling the sleepiest smile youād ever seen, and as heād shuffle against your chest in 15 ish minutes heād reach for your hand, intertwine your fingers, kiss the back of your knuckles like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Can you believe that I wrote fluffā¦
Divider by @/strangergraphics
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