Lucien was usually an early riser but one too many long days and way too many late nights finally caught up with him. From the light coming into his room when he finally started to wake up it had to be at least mid morning. Despite that he still wasn’t all that interested in getting out of bed. Some time during the morning Sumi had abandoned him probably to get some tuna for himself. Or wake Arin up to get him tuna. Sumi could do it himself but he always got tsked at for leaving cabinets and drawers open when he did. It was cute but annoying.

Eventually though the desire for some tea and the need to brush his teeth forced him to crawl out of bed. He pulled on an old tshirt that at least sort of matched his pajama pants and ran a hand through his hair. It was a hopeless gesture given how much his hair liked to misbehave. There would be no controlling it until after he’d had a shower.

Yawning he headed out of his room and was on his way to the bathroom when he noticed movement in the living room. Pausing he blinked a few times until what he was seeing finally registered.

Arin.

Doing push-ups in the middle of the living room

Without a shirt.

Lucien’s hand snapped up over his mouth to stop any sort of embarrassing noises from escaping. That was the last thing he needed to deal with. Dragging his eyes away from the view he fled into the bathroom. He leaned against the door, head thumping back against the door as he groaned. That was an image that wasn’t going away any time soon. Or ever.

When he was sure he wasn’t going to make any other stupid noises and pretty sure Arin hadn’t heard him since he hadn’t come to ask questions he pushed away from the door and flipped on the shower. While the water got hot he brushed his teeth and tried to think of anything but Arin. He wasn’t going to think about how his arms looked, or his back, or his shoulders or anything else. It probably said something about how zoned out he got doing yoga that he hadn’t ever noticed before. He’d have hurt himself if he had.

If Arin was going to do that more often, or had been doing it and he missed it getting up early, he would have to be more careful.

The last thing ARin needed was to find out he had some stupid ‘schoolboy’ crush on him. It wasn’t Arin’s fault he’d gotten better looking as they got older. Nevermind that he was nicer and a lot more considerate of Lucien’s own issues.

“Stupid knight in shining armor BS.” He grumbled as he rinsed ou his mouth. “What am I, twelve?”

Shaking his head he stripped and threw himself into the shower. If he was lucky Arin would be done by the tie he got out and he could make tea and get breakfast in peace. If not then he was going right back to bed.