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intheheart ([personal profile] intheheart) wrote2019-06-21 09:14 pm

Cozy

Title: Cozy
Rating: PG
Summary: Maya's apartment is something magic.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Zoe's new, but I love her already.


Maya's apartment is something magic.

Zoe's used to their cramped condo, her brothers and sisters and mother and fake stepfather all crammed into three bedrooms and a living room. Maya only has a studio but it feels so much more open and alive.

There's plants everywhere, for starters, crowding the fire escape, lining the windowsill. There's a fish tank, goldfish and guppies and neon tetras like flashes of fireworks among the weeds. There's books; an entire shelf of the same author's historicals, books on dance and horticulture and political science side by side. She's put up Christmas lights around the edge of the room, posters of Hindi gods and framed pictures of flowers alternating on her one bare wall, a warm cup of a chair tucked against her desk, a broad fluff of a couch underneath the window.

It's cozy. Maya's cozy.

Zoe always wanted to live somewhere like that.

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