What?

I recently started working in hospitality, and I’ll tell you guys right now, the trope of “there was only one bed” is not as rare as you’d think in real life. A few times a week, at least, I have guys come in who are working together on projects in town or passing through who have to literally book the last room I have available for the night and lo and behold — there is only one bed, and guess what, they give each other a side-eyed look and begrudgingly take it. So write it up, it happens all the time!!!

Never let your There Was Only One Bed dreams die. I was secretly in love with my best friend for over a year when she graduated and moved to Oklahoma (like 1000 miles away) for grad school. Between that travel restrictions, we were so scared we’d never see eachother again.

At the end of summer, when Covid numbers were at a lower point, I took the risk to visit her in her new apartment and I quickly realized that, unlike when I’d spent the night at her house before, the couch wasn’t made up like a bed. She explained that since her new couch was so fancy and pink, I couldn’t possibly sleep on it, and so I needed to sleep in the bed with her. You know, out of necessity. I woke up with her snuggled around me in the middle of the night.

We’re dating now, and I genuinely think I’m going to marry her. Just the other day, though, I mentioned that if she hadn’t been weird about her fancy couch, I probably never would have like confessed my feelings. AND THEN she stood up, took the cushions off the fancy couch, UNFOLDED IT INTO A HIDE-A-BED, and said “I KNOW.”

THIS GIRL. ORCHESTRATED. BED SCARCITY. JUST SO SHE COULD MAKE THE “ONLY ONE BED” EXCUSE. Y’all when I said I just about lost my goddamn mind, I just about lost my goddamn mind. I love this sneaky bitch so much and the moral of this story is BE THE ONE BED YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

Fanfic imitates life, and life imitates fanfic. It’s full circle really.

oh my god 

there was only one bed

but it was STAGED

I love this so much

New Fanfic Trope Unlocked!!!!!

AU:There was only one bed - by design👀

Fake dating or only one bed?

Fake only one bed

THE TROPE HAS LEVELED UP

Nature is healing.

When there was in fact more than one bad, but it was made to seem like there was not:

reading a book with a medieval setting and i was v excited for it BUT these characters have such modern hangups about touch and personal space that i keep forgetting it's meant to be the fourteenth century. lads. get in bed together, it's cold.

like this man is freaking out about sleeping next to someone (for warmth) because he has never shared a bed before

sir??? you are from the fourteenth century??? surely this is not such a novelty to you

also so far christianity does not exist in this book. we have not even so much as mentioned passing a church while travelling.

i repeat: sir, you are from the fourteenth century,

#I know there’s suspension if disbelief #but why make that the setting if you’re just going to ignore all the rules? #why not go in for ‘and there was only one bed with five other people in it’ debauchery (via @cardboardcupcake)

honestly i need somebody to write "there was only one bed with five other people in it" immediately, that sounds like it's either going to be incredibly full of repressed yearning, incredibly funny, or just an orgy, and i would love to see it go in any and all of those directions

#ok five people in the bed. the two on the outside are in the one bed trope #the two on in inside are also in a one bed trope #but they’re separated by the middle person #who's genuinely dying of hypothermia and it’s kind of bringing down the vibe

@fis-paprikas this made me snort-laugh, thank you

to the left of me: an impoverished noblewoman and her loyal man at arms and their forbidden cross class love doing an Only One Bed. to the right of me: two priests in full vestments and their forbidden gay catholic love doing an Only One Bed me, in the middle: eating turnips as quietly as I can while i take in the drama