Cottage Cuddles AU
Series Metadata
- Creator:
- NumptyPylon
- Series Begun:
- 2021-02-14
- Series Updated:
- 2024-01-06
- Description:
Modern au indie romcom, following housemates Callum and Rayla as they meet and fall in love. Takes place in current day Scotland. It's a very lowkey slowburn, it's about the banter and the yearning and the little things.
- Notes:
Cottage Cuddles AU Timeline:
None of the stories necessitate reading any of the others, although they will refer to each other, of course, they're written to be able to be read independently.
- Stats:
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- Words:
- 96,929
- Works:
- 4
- Complete:
- No
- Bookmarks:
- 35
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Summary
If he was really considering taking a break from school to figure things out, Callum would certainly rather do it here than back home with all the pressure and expectations.
It was... all without making a single conscious decision, it felt, that he had gotten here. But here he was, asking for ‘Rayla’, his maybe-future-housemate, if… he actually went through with this extended fugue state he was experiencing and if she would have him of course and… it was nuts but… here he was.
And here she was, walking towards his table.
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Rayllum housemates-to-lovers slowburn. Includes chapter illustrations.
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Chapter 28 - January 2021: Callum returns from Canada. Last chapter, so story is now complete!
Series
- Part 1 of Cottage Cuddles AU
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Callum had said he wanted to get drunk and forget that he was a chronically single art school drop out with no prospects, romantic or otherwise.
He hadn’t said that watching a movie (even if it was Twilight) with Rayla in their cottage was… pretty much his ideal way of spending any evening, including Valentine’s Day.
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The tail end of a slow burn, purest form of idiots-to-lovers...
Includes chapter illustrations.Series
- Part 2 of Cottage Cuddles AU
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Follows backpacking lovebugs Callum and Rayla, as they traverse Europe by train.
31 days of beaches, forests, mountains, tiny villages, big cities, piles of skulls, cramped quarters, pee-smelling hostels, puke-ridden sea voyages, boredom-ridden land journeys, ancient ruins, new feelings and old ghosts.
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Combines Callum’s illustrated travel journal spreads (with guest annotations) and written chapters.
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- Part 3 of Cottage Cuddles AU
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It wasn’t a rat or squirrel like she’d thought. A cat. A kitten, maybe? It was pretty small.
“Are your parents around?” Rayla asked.
The answering meow sounded even sadder this time.
Obviously not. Maybe that had been an insensitive thing to ask, she should bloody know-
While Callum is away visiting his family, Rayla is adopted by a stray kitten (modern au Stella).
A mix of dumb humor, warm cuddles and reactivated abandonment issues.Series
- Part 4 of Cottage Cuddles AU