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wake-me-up-inside-imagines · 8 months ago

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hi !! i really love your work !! i know you already covered it in the alphabet, but can i have some comfort headcanons/one shot with leo (gn!reader). uni is kicking my ass and having adhd is not helping. would be great if you could write this, but dont worry if you dont feel like it. thanks !!

Thank you! I'm sorry uni's being a pain, hopefully this provides a nice distraction! I hope things get better, have an awesome day, and I hope you enjoy!

Leo Myers comforting his stressed S/O

Gn! reader

Warnings: Reader's implied to have adhd, reader is stressed

Divider credit goes to @animatedglittergraphics-n-more

It was too much. All of it was too much.

You were trying to get your work done, you really were. But it was hard to focus, especially when you knew you had so much to do. You were doing the best you could, working as much as you could manage to, but the work was still beginning to pile up, creating more and more stress until you felt like you would burst with the pressure. Your focus was getting shittier by the minute, every minor thing distracting you, making it harder and harder for you to pay attention to your already neglected work.

You were trying, but it wasn’t enough. No matter what you did, you just couldn’t focus. The stress, the work, your grade, it was weighing down on you, dragging you to the bottom of the college ocean.

After a couple more hours of fragmented focus and inconsistent work, you threw your computer down, placed your head in your hands, and groaned loudly. You can’t do this anymore. You need a break. Screw the homework, screw the grade, screw sitting around, praying you’d find the willpower to get through your work, you needed to get up and move. Or take a break. Or do…well, anything. Anything that wasn’t this.

Quickly, before you could change your mind, you stood up, walking into the wider apartment you shared with your roommate. They were out doing something, so thankfully, you had the place to yourself, free to pace the hardwood floors to your heart's content. It wasn’t much, the space was still cramped, but you were moving, and you weren’t working, so that was something.

Stifling a sigh, you began walking around the apartment, back and forth, back and forth, looking for anything to clear your mind, or distract you enough to get your bearings back. You needed a break, but the work wasn’t going to do itself, and the quicker you could fix your attention span, the faster it would get done. You just needed to clear your head, you just needed to retain your focus, you just needed-

*Knock knock*

Ah. Someone was at your door, but you weren’t expecting anyone. You had cleared the whole day out to get work done, which wasn’t saying much considering how little you had managed to do. Your roommate, maybe? Did they forget their keys again?

Making your way to the door, you twisted the knob, your frustration evident. “Dude, you really need to take your keys with you, this is the third time this mon-“

The door swung open, but to your surprise, it wasn’t your roommate. It was your boyfriend Leo, bags of food hanging from his arms. “…What?”

“Leo? What are you doing here?” You blinked with confusion, stepping aside to let him into your apartment. “I thought you were my roommate. What’s all that?”

Leo stepped inside, giving you a small, understanding smile as he walked toward the nearest table, placing the bag on top of it. “Well, you seemed upset when you texted me earlier that school was kicking your ass, so I thought I’d come over and…I don’t know, try to make you feel better? Unless you’re to busy to chill for a bit, then I can just leave this here and let you work-”

“No, Stay!” You didn’t mean to shout, but your voice came out ten notches too loud, a strange sort of desperation lining your words. Whoops. “I mean, it would be nice if you could stay. I could use a distraction.”

Leo tensed up briefly at the loud noise, but relaxed as your voice softened, a small, sympathetic smile crossing his face. “Yeah, no problem. Honestly, you look like you could use one. Is it the schoolwork?”

“...Yeah, it is.” You sighed, shaking your head in annoyance before walking closer to the table, observing the food Leo had just put down. To your delight, it was from your favorite restaurant, a whole meal packed away in tightly sealed containers. Had Leo really gotten all this for you? “You really got me dinner? All this, just to make me feel better?”

You turned back around to face Leo, who’s smile hadn’t left his face. He looked happy, his feet bouncing up and down underneath him as he shifted around, swaying from foot to foot. “Of course I did! You’ve been working really hard lately, you deserve a treat. Plus, I figured you’d probably only eaten snacks today, so I figured you could use some real food. Give your brain better fuel, you know?”

Almost as if on cue, your stomach growled loudly, the smell reminding it of its emptiness. Leo was right, you had only really eaten a couple of snacks, and even that had been hours ago. You were hungry, hungry for real food. It was fortunate that you now had a whole meal waiting for you, hot, delicious, and best of all, fully prepared. “Wow babe, I don’t…I don’t know what to say. Thank you.”

“Nah, don’t thank me.” Leo shook his head, walking towards the table. He grabbed the packages of food out of the bags, setting them where there was space until there was nothing left to grab. “I’m happy to do this for you. As I said, you deserve a treat, especially after working all day.”

“More like trying to work all day.” You pulled out a chair and sat down, motioning Leo to do the same. You pulled your portion of food closer to yourself, opening the container and letting yourself drown in the delicious smell of your favorite food. Ah, sweet nutrition. “I’ve barely gotten anything done. I have so much to do, but I haven’t been able to focus. It takes me so much time to get even smaller tasks done, and I don’t know how to fix it.”

You dug into your food with frustration, watching as Leo nodded sympathetically across the table. He paused, swallowing a bite of food before reaching out with a shaky hand, curling his fingers around yours softly when his hand was met with one of yours. “I get what you mean. It’s hard to get work done when you know how much you have to do, isn’t it?”

You hummed softly, taking another couple bites of food. You needed this. You were still stressed, but at least the food was giving you more energy. “It’s distracting, is what it is. How am I supposed to focus on something when I have ten other things waiting for me?”

The two of you sat in silence for a moment, munching on your food. Then Leo spoke up again, his voice soft with slight optimism. “I’m sure you’ve gotten more done than you think. It doesn’t usually feel like a lot until I look back and see how much I did in a day. At least, that’s my experience.”

A small, bitter smile twitched at your lip for a second, but you suppressed it, lest your boyfriend think it was aimed at him. “I hope so. Still, it feels like nothing right now, and it’s stressing me out. There’s so much crap to do, and not enough time, not to mention how shit my focus is.”

A thoughtful look crossed Leo’s face. “Anything I can help with? I mean, is there anything confusing you that I might be able to explain?”

You shook your head again. “Not likely. You don’t take the same classes as me, remember?”

Leo grimaced, swallowing another bite of food. “...I know, I just feel bad. I want to help, but I guess there’s not a ton I can do with your class work.”

You smiled. Despite the stress, it was cute how much your boyfriend was trying to help, even if he didn’t know what he was doing. You appreciated his efforts, but was there really much he could do? “...I mean, you could still help, just in a different way.”

“Can I?” Leo’s voice sounded hopeful again, his hand going to push the hair out of his face as he looked back up at you. “How?”

“Well, my focus is shit, so…maybe a distraction would help. If you could stay for a while, that might…I don’t know, refresh me? It would give me a break, at least.”

Leo smiled again, putting his fork down on his box of food. It looked like he was about done, and you were too, except for a couple of bites. “Sure! I can stay. You have anything you want to do in mind?”

You paused, thinking. What could you do? Talking helped, but so could anything else. A game? A movie? Cuddling? “...You wanna just cuddle and talk? Speaking might help, and I miss you holding me.”

“Sure, let me clear the trash and then we can cuddle wherever you want, ok?” Leo stood up, gently taking his trash over to the nearby trash can.

You took the opportunity to finish the last couple bites of your food before Leo came back around, his hands reaching out to grab your trash, which you handed to him gladly. You appreciated how much he was doing for you, even when it seemed so little. You were tired, so being able to move around as little as possible, even for a couple moments, was a gift.

Leo finished up, coming back around until he was standing beside you. “Bedroom or couch?”

You took a breath, mustering up the energy to get back on your feet before lurching forward, shuffling out of your chair. “Bedroom please.”

The two of you shuffled your way to your room, hand in hand, Leo’s shoulder brushing up against yours. You stepped into the room, practically collapsing on top of the bed while Leo grabbed your laptop and notebook and set them aside somewhere you couldn’t see them. Out of sight, out of mind.

As soon as he made sure there was nothing school-related on your bed anymore, Leo flopped down beside you, kicking off his shoes as he did so. A moment of shuffling around later, and he was beside you, wrapping his arms around your mostly limp form. “You doing alright?”

“...About as much as I can be,” you replied, your voice now muffled by Leo’s sweatshirt. You shuffled closer, pressing yourself as close to your boyfriend’s side as you possibly could. He wasn’t the warmest ,but he was soft, so you didn’t care. “Thank you for staying. Locking myself in here just to stare at my screen was driving me nuts. I needed a break.”

Leo’s arms wrapped themselves tighter around you, his lips meeting the top of your head softly. You loved how light his kisses were. “No problem. I’m glad I could give you some peace, even for a little bit. If you don’t mind me asking…how bad’s the workload?”

You paused for a moment, thinking. You tried counting all the assignments you still had left in your head, but it didn’t take long for you to lose track, and you were too tired to try to recount. “Not great. I’ve got a bunch of little assignments to get done, which wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t also have three bigger assignments taking up my brain space. I’m worried the most about those, but the little stuff is gonna end up adding up, and I just can’t focus on more than one assignment for more than a couple minutes at a time. I keep getting distracted by other stuff, and I feel like…like it’s not even worth trying. I’m not gonna get everything done, so why bother?”

You curled up even further on Leo’s chest, resting your ear against his collarbone as Leo’s chin poked against the top of your head. You hadn’t meant to say so much, you didn’t want to burden your boyfriend with your problems, but the floodgates had been opened, and you could no longer hold yourself back from spilling all the stress that had been boiling over for days. You hoped you weren’t putting him off, but you were too tired to pretend like everything was fine. You were done.

A hand slowly worked its way down your arm, finding one of your own and intertwining the two together. His hold was soft, comforting. Not too firm, but not loose either. “I’m so sorry babe. I’ve been there before, and it sucks. I’m not sure if there’s anything I can do to help with the work itself, but…I’m here for you, ok? I’m here now, and I’ll always be here. If you ever get too stressed, just call or text me, and I’ll be here. I…I love you.”

Despite your stress, a smile began crawling across your face, pressing deeper into the fabric of Leo’s sweatshirt. “I love you too. Thank you for this. You’re right, there’s not much you can do for my work, but you’re a good stress deflator. Can you keep holding me like this? It feels safe.”

“Of course,” Leo murmured, kissing the top of your head again. His arms tenderly caged you in, keeping you secure, away from the stress that had plagued you for the past few days. One arm briefly left your body to pull your blankets over your body, but swiftly returned, holding you softly to his body once again. “I’ll hold you as long as you want. Anything you wanna talk about to distract you?”

“Mm…how about…your day?”

Leo’s head nodded from above you. “Ok, I can do that. My day wasn’t all that special until I came here, but I had a couple classes…”

Leo continued on, his voice unnaturally quiet, and you sunk further into his chest, relaxing with every word. His voice was soothing, especially when he was making an effort to be more quiet. You could listen to him talk for hours.

Eventually, your small conversation turned from Leo's day to other topics, switching every so often to match the flow of ideas. As you talked, you could feel your eyelids growing heavier and heavier, the darkness of the room and the softness of Leo’s voice doing nothing to keep you awake. Your lack of sleep was finally catching up to you. You were going to fall asleep soon, right on Leo’s chest, safe in his loving arms.

Without realizing it, your voice began to trail off, responding less and less to Leo’s comments. You were half unconscious when your boyfriend’s voice rang out again, affection dripping from every word.

“Sleep well baby. I’ll see you in the morning, ok?”

Your only response was to snuggle closer one last time, inhaling the clean scent of your boyfriend’s clothes as you slowly faded. Thumbs rubbed soft circles on your back, sending you further and further into sleep. Your work could wait. Your classes could wait. Right now, you just wanted to sleep, soaking in the affection your boyfriend was giving you in your last moments of consciousness.

At last, you faded, darkness enveloping your form. You couldn’t wait until you woke up, safe in Leo’s arms. Morning cuddles were the best, after all.

You smiled, and then you were out.

I hope you enjoyed!

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