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事件0：Eddy一直睡不好。
事件1：Brett和Eddy从大概上周三开始就各回各家了。
事件2：布里斯班由于发现covid19-delta病例而从周六开始封锁三天。（然后延长到下个周日了）
事件2.5：然后他们昨天发了五条抖音。
事件3：而且twosetviolin的ins账号在当地时间凌晨三点发了一条动态。
以下是脑洞：
*嗡嗡嗡……*
“Eddy？大哥现在凌晨三点……！”
“…我知道…我就是睡不着嘛。”
听筒里传来一阵窸窸窣窣的声音，Brett似乎在那边翻了个身。但屏幕上还是黑乎乎的一片——毕竟没有谁会在凌晨三点被视频电话吵醒之后还打算开个灯。“讲真，就算咱们不打算戒奶茶也还是最好不要大晚上的喝吧，毕竟奶茶里咖啡因也不少，对睡眠不好的。”
“但是这不公平……！每次我们晚上一起喝奶茶你都啥事儿没有，只有我会睡不着。”
虽然好像也不完全是。至少他们住一起的时候，他可以听着Brett入睡后均匀、绵长的呼吸声，强迫自己不管睡不睡得着都还是放下手机合上眼，最后往往也能很快陷入睡眠。
但现在他只能裹紧自己的被子，想像那是Brett的怀抱。完全就是安慰剂——一点用也没有的那种。
Eddy把脸埋进枕头，嗅着枕头上残留着的一丝丝Brett的气味。他们一起睡的时候，他总喜欢埋在Brett的颈窝里嗅闻他的气息。偶尔Brett没睡着或是被他弄醒的时候会咕哝着抱怨他弄得他脖子痒痒的，然后翻个身接着睡去。
Brett闻起来……让人安心。Eddy想不出什么更好的描述，即使是在完全清醒着的时候，更何况他现在已经很困了。说真的，为什么他都困成这样了还是睡不着？他完全搞不懂。
“要不我们别挂电话吧？视频就算了，视频可以关了。声音开着就可以了。 我感觉我听一点白噪声可能会好一点？”只要是Brett的声音就好，他想。
Brett似乎是打了个呵欠。“嗯，也行，那我把我手机放枕头旁边。你还想再聊一会儿吗？”
“不用了。”凌晨三点打电话把人叫醒已经够离谱了，即使几天没见面Eddy也还没有饥渴到要在这个时候和Brett聊天的程度。就算是Brett主动提出要聊天也不至于。“你睡吧，我听着就行。晚安。”
“晚安。”
Eddy没有挂电话，只是关了屏幕，把手机放在枕边。他翻了个身，仰面躺在床上，凝视着漆黑一片的天花板。这也太离谱了，他想。明明他们上一次见面不过就是在几天前。明明他们几个小时之前才视频通话过，尽管只是为了聊工作。但他此刻仍然无与伦比地思念Brett。
或许他已经对Brett上瘾了，他想。
或许他的确离了Brett就没办法正常生活了。
但他甘之如饴。
他最后究竟是怎么睡着的？Eddy自己也记不清了。他只知道当他再次睁开眼时，灿烂的阳光已经照进了卧室。他翻了个身去拿枕边的手机，发现已经没电关机了。
……要不下次还是把手机充上电再打一晚上的电话吧。
倒也不是说他在期待会有下一次。和Brett分居也好，半夜打电话也好，还是不要有下次了。
*花絮*
事件4：然后今晚他们发了一条限时动态表明Brett现在在Eddy家。
Eddy给手机插上充电器，看着它开机，然后起身穿衣去洗漱。他正边刷牙边思考自己今天第一顿（不能说是早饭，毕竟已经快中午了）该吃什么，然后他听到了玄关处传来的响动。他走出去看见Brett刚打开门，拎着两杯珍珠奶茶和一份三明治。
Eddy愣住了。
“早上好—你吃过了吗？”等等，不对，他在说什么，“你怎么过来了？我们不是封城了吗？”
“要‘照顾病弱的家庭成员’，显而易见。”Brett边说着边把手上的东西放在Eddy家的餐桌上。“我刚发消息问你早上想吃啥你没回我，然后我就随便买了两个三明治还有两杯奶茶。我的那个已经被我吃了。”
“哦对我手机没电了，刚起床才充上。真的，我再也不会干这种事儿了。真的太离谱了。”尤其是现在Brett来了，他也没有必要再三更半夜的打电话了。
“昂，你是指半夜打电话？其实我觉得问题不大来着。好了赶紧去漱口然后过来吃饭。”
于是Eddy照做了。
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Fact 0: Eddy has been having trouble sleeping at night, for long.
Fact 1: Brett and Eddy are separate, both in their own houses, since Wednesday or earlier (as can be seen from tiktok and Instagram stories)
Fact 2: Brisbane has entered a lockdown of three days since Saturday. (which has been lengthened to next Sunday FYI)
Fact 2.5: then they posted 5 tiktoks in one day yesterday.
Fact 3: twoset posted on instagram when it was 3am local time.
And here’s the head-canon:
*bzzz…bzzz…*
"Eddy? Dude what the f… it's 3am!"
"…I know. I just… can't get asleep."
There was a rustling sound probably made by Brett rolling over in his bed. Eddy wasn't sure, as it was all dark on the screen - no one would bother turning on a lamp after being woken up by a goddamn video call at 3am. "Actually you know what? Maybe quit having bubble tea in the evening, hey. The caffeine, not so good for your sleep."
"Dude that's not fair… We always had it together and it's only me that couldn't sleep afterwards! "
Wait… well, that was not quite the case when they were living together. At least he was able to listen to Brett's long, steady breaths as he was asleep, and force himself to put away his phone and close his eyes.
But now he could only wrap himself in the duvet, imagining the other person's warmth were underneath. Not useful at all, not even a bit.
He buried his face in his pillows, smelling the lingering scent of Brett's. He always liked burying himself in the curves of Brett's neck, breathing in and out, ignoring Brett's muttering complaints about the tickling of his breaths onto his skin. On rare occasions though, for most of the time Brett was sound asleep already when he did this.
He smelt… soothing. That was all Eddy could think of about describing it now. Not that he could think of a better description when he was fully awake -- actually hey, why the heck was his eyelids refusing to close when he was tired as hell as now? He couldn't understand.
"Actually you know what? Let's just keep the chat on. Not the video, maybe, just the voice chat. Guess it might be better if I listened to some white noises." As long as it was made by you, Brett.
A yawning sound. "Oh, okay. I'll put it beside my pillows then. You wanna chitchat for some more?"
"Nah." Not that he wasn't aware how ridiculous it was to ask for a chitchat after waking someone up from a sound sleep at 3 am. Not even if Brett offered for some. Not even that he missed Brett so much after merely days of not being able to touch him in person was a sound excuse for it. "I'll just… listen to the sounds you make, I guess. Nighty."
"'kay. g'night."
Eddy put away his phone without ending the voice chat. He rolled over on his back, staring at the ceiling in the dark. That's ridiculous, he thought to himself. It's not even a handful of days since the last time they met each other. Merely a couple of hours since they had their last video meeting, about work though. But none of these could make up for his need for Brett.
Maybe he was getting addicted.
Maybe he just couldn't function without Brett.
Not that he was unwilling to, he thought.
Exactly how did he fall asleep, he didn't remember. The next thing he knew was he was wide awake to the bright daylight, and he reached over to his phone only to find it was power off from a whole night's voice chat.
…Maybe he should put it on charge in advance if this happens a next time.
Not that he was looking forward to a next time, in any sense.
*bloopers*
Fact 4: Then they posted a story today showing a Brett in Eddy's house.
Eddy put his phone on charge, watched it power on, and got out of his bed to go fresh himself up. He was brushing his teeth wondering what to eat for his brunch when he heard some noise from the door. He went out of the bathroom to find Brett with two cups of bubble tea and one sandwich.
Eddy froze. "Wait, did you have your breakfast already?" No stop what are you talking about, "I thought we were on lockdown? How did you manage?"
"Told them I had to 'assist a vulnerable family member'." Brett said casually as he took off his shoes and put the things in his hand on the table. "'tis yours. I asked you on the phone what you’d want for breakfast but you didn't reply, so I just got the usual sandwiches. Already had mine. "
"Yeah my phone's battery died. Just charged it up. Actually you know what? I'll never do this again. So dumb. " And he had no need to, as long as Brett was here with him.
"You mean having a voice chat all night? Never mind. Now go rinse your teeth and have your brunch."
And Eddy did.