He was awake, but only in the most technical sense of the word. His eyes were open. He was sitting up in bed, leaning against a pillow. Yet, all he wanted to do was close his eyes and fall into the deep, silent, tranquil, perfect darkness.
It was an enormous effort to turn his head even 90 degrees to look at her next to him. "Was I under?" he asked. His voice sounded like he had just woken up.
"What do you think?" she responded. She didn't even look up from her knitting. If she hadn't been wearing a negligee (the navy one, with lace -- his favorite), she would have looked very prim.
"I think..." His voice trailed off. That was the problem, wasn't it? Thinking was very difficult. Thoughts drifted through his brain slowly, like tumbleweed rolling through the streets of a town in a Western movie. However, he couldn't catch them, no matter how slowly they moved. He just didn't have the energy. Instead, he let them roll past.
"Is it hard for you to think?" she asked, without raising her eyes from her knitting.
"Yeah," he drawled. That was exactly it. It was hard for him to think. In his boxers, something else was beginning to get hard. Normally, he would shift his weight to get more comfortable. Right now, he couldn't. He was just too tired.
His head lolled on his shoulders. Why was it so difficult to stay awake? It should have bothered him more, being so tired. It was... what time was it? The clock said 7:30 PM. It was kind of weird being so tired. He couldn't get worked up about it, though. It was just one those things, one of those things you passively accepted without questioning or thinking too much. Thinking was too hard for him now.
He felt her hand stroking his thigh. When had she put her knitting down? He wondered idly. It was another thing that didn't bother him too much.
"You're really tired, huh?" She leaned closer and breathed the question in his ear. The heat of her breath sent more blood in the direction of his boxer briefs.
"Uh huh," he grunted.
"Why do you think you're so tired?" she asked. Her hand was now playing with his chest hair. He enjoyed it when she did that. If only he weren't so tired...
"Dunno," he answered after a moment. He had no idea why all he wanted to do was to go to sleep.
"Well, who are you?" she asked. Who was he, indeed? He was a man. That was a good start. He had a dim recollection of spending his days in front of the computer -- did it have something to do with web design? Maybe. Did that explain who he was, though?
He sat in bed pondering the question, though not hard. He couldn't really concentrate. The tumbleweed in his head continued to roll past without him doing much about it.
"I'll give you a hint," she said, running her finger up and down his bare arm. It felt good -- a little ticklish, but good. The sensation distracted him from thinking too hard, though he really wasn't doing that anyway.
"There are three words to describe you," she said. "Do you know what they are?"
Three words... he tried to focus, but the patterns she was tracing on his arm caught too much of his attention. "No," he admitted.
"I'll give you another hint," she said, kissing him on his shoulder. "Each word starts with the same letter."