He nodded. "Next time, you answer the door." He sighed again, just trying to stay relaxed. It was vastly easily with her arms around him.

Were he to take a few steps back and look at the whole thing objectively, he'd see that he was probably using her. She acted like a drug, helping him forget everything. It was not a fix to the problem, at all, but it made the world tolerable.

With another sign, this one sounding of resignation, he pulled away a little. "Hungry?"