Friends cared.
We hadn’t been super-good friends before he got shot because I was wounded and pining, he was…whatever he was, he’d then got a girlfriend, I’d then faked a budding relationship with his bro…which led us to our recent past and him getting shot.
We had to figure out how to do this without me screaming, us fighting, or me flipping him the bird.
“The kids were great. She looked chill from her Reiki session. And she shared she’s working so hard because she’s saving to buy a house.”
He made a choking noise, so I turned to him.
I watched him swallow with difficulty before he asked, “She’s saving to buy a house?”
“That’s what she says.”
“Your sister. Dream,” he stated to confirm.
I felt my lips quirk. “My sister. Dream.”
“Well, fuck me,” he muttered to his plate and forked up some eggs.
“You sleep okay?” I asked.
“I have to sleep on my back, so…no,” he answered.
To my knowledge, he was a side or stomach sleeper.
If it was side, he spooned or I spooned. If it was stomach, he slept mostly on me with his arm tucked around me.
I forced these things out of my head.
“I sleep better when I nap on the couch,” he said.
“Maybe you should sleep for a few days on the couch, then.”
“I sleep better, but I wake up and my body is tied in knots.”
“I hear that, brother.”
“What?”
“I spent the night on Dream’s couch the other night.” I waved my fork. “Long story, but I woke up one big kink.”
“You’re a mover,” he remarked.
I turned to him again. “What?”
“When you sleep. You move. You turn. You shift.” He glanced out of the sides of his eyes at me before his attention returned to his plate. “I had to lock you down or you’d wake me up every half an hour.”
“Sorry,” I whispered, actually knowing I was a mover, but I’d thought with Knox that I didn’t because I was so content sleeping beside Knox.
I had no idea he “locked me down.”
He turned fully to me then. “I didn’t mind, baby.”
“So you’re not a spooner normally with um…a chick?” My question came out somewhat strangled.
Slowly, he shook his head.
“Were you comfortable doing that with me?”
