As the hours passed of us just talking, we were both starting to wear - at which point I offered "you can have your own room or you can spend the night with me if you don't want to stay down here."
"I was enjoying this, but the comfort of a bed would be nice."
"Do you still want a spare room for whatever."
"Sure, but I'd like to spend the night with you if that's okay."
"Of course it is, why wouldn't it?"
I honestly didn't know if I'd even make it upstairs. I'm not sure which of us was more spent. Not that it mattered. One of the unusual features of the second floor bathroom was that it had two sinks. That was the way my parents purchased it in 1993. It was a 16-year-old house then. Fast forward 28 years and It looks almost nothing like it originally did on the inside. There weren't that many oddities about the house But it wasn't too big, the yard was big, the house was on the small side if I'm being honest.
I had actually used the downstairs restroom so as to not tie up the upstairs one. She was still brushing her teeth when I had come up. I went to do the same. Upon finishing, she followed me to my room with her arms wrapped around me. "Any higher and your arms might fall off."
"You have no idea what I would do for you."
"I guess I have to take that," I replied with a chuckle.
"Damn right you do, I won't let you leave it." I presumed she had a weak smirk on her face.
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With that remark, I hid a smirk since he couldn't see me with me being behind him. But it wasn't much of one - I was still tired after all.
"It's not much, but it's good bedroom," he said as he turned the lights on. Of all the things in view, he? Had a walk-in closet? "Over to the left is my jersey vault," he said pointing to the walk-in. "That I extended a few years ago, and to the far right corner on the far side next to the bed is the bottle dispenser with my work desk to your immediate right."
"The bed looks comfy."
"That's why the bed is the most important part of a BED-room." Before he finished the sentence, I plopped myself right on. "I hope it's not too firm or soft."
"It'll be perfect with you in it," I may have been tired, but I didn't love him any less.
"I'm glad I can share it with you. Do you need a water or anything?"
"Nah, I'll be fine," I responded as he clapped the main lights off. He grabbed the control for the light off the nightstand next to him by the window and with the blinds on my side slightly open to see the dim floodlight peering from the other side of the protected wetland reflecting on the back of the house.
"Goodnight, Dottie."
"Goodnight Nickie. I love you."
"Love you too."
...
A loud crack of thunder woke me up out of a nightmare and I let out a scream. It was 12:04 am. "Where am I?!" We'd only been asleep a few hours and I had forgotten that I had stayed the night with Nick.
"It's okay, Nickie's here," he said still half asleep but pushing back to lean up against the headboard. "Come here." As he always did, his hug made me feel better and part of him. "At least it was only thunder."
"Nooo, I had a bad dream," I said not wanting to make it sound worse even if it was.
"Aw, my poor baby," he said. "At least we're here together."
"I was at a different hospital than the one I'm interning and everyone had different holiday outfits. Everyone was in good spirits and many of the patients were being discharged. And then as we were all celebrating outside the main entrance a meteor came from nowhere and hit us."
"Wow, that's intense. Maybe it's a sign of how poorly society is acting among each other."
"Well whatever it was, the thunder outside the house didn't help."
"I had a dream once that was a recurring dream that was very weird. I haven't seen it in a while and I'm not sure what it means."
"Oh?"