“Okay, here’s one.” He squints down at his crossword puzzle. “A four-letter word for ‘beautiful.’”

It’s just another morning—sunrise, and they’re both in bed, savoring the last minutes they have before they’re forced to get up and start getting ready for another day of work. It’s another morning, and it’s everything.

She thinks for a minute. “Beautiful? Um…lovely? No, never mind, that’s six.”

He smiles. “Yeah.”

“Um…” She bites her lip. “God. I have no clue. You’re the one who knows words. What’s it start with?”

It takes him a moment, but he figures it out.

“Alex,” he murmurs.

“What?”

“A four-letter word for beautiful.”

How did I get this sappy?

Written for lawandorder100. Prompt was "clue."