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The night was quiet around the small little town of Faraway. Not a noise was heard by anyone. The hot summer sun had been replaced by the all seeing moon and its many stars filling the night sky.
Sunny, Basil, and Aubrey were all asleep in their warm and comfy bed, covered by lots of blankets and protected by the three of them cuddling each other in their sleep. The three were snoozing away.
Well, two of them were.
Aubrey had awoken late that night. She couldn’t tell why she had woken up, but she knew for a fact that she wasn’t falling back to sleep anytime soon, as sad as the truth was. She would’ve loved to get up from the bed to do something to wear herself out and go back to sleep, but she was straight smack in the middle of a sleeping Sunny on her left and a snoozing Basil on her right. She didn’t want to wake either of them…then again, killing the time was a lot more bearable with another person. Maybe she should wake one of them up…
No! No. That's not fair to them. She shouldn't wake Sunny or Basil up at all. She should let them sleep. She should let them rest.
She should leave the two be.
But…
…
Aubrey stared at Sunny. He seemed peaceful as he slept. Sunny and Aubrey were both known not to make much noise as they slept, and that was true as Aubrey saw Sunny snooze the night away.
She really didn't want to wake him up. She really didn't.
But she couldn't exactly fall back to sleep…
She shakes Sunny gently.
“Sunny…” Aubrey quietly says.
“Wakey wakey…”
Sunny groans due to the shaking. He opens his eyes, seeing Aubrey sitting on his lap in front of him.
“Hi there, cutie,” She greets him quietly.
“Sorry to wake you…”
Sunny groans again, now sitting up in the bed, awake.
“...Aubrey…what are you doing awake…? Why did you wake me…?"
"I woke up and couldn't fall back to sleep...sorry."
Sunny rubs his eyes, trying to fully wake his very tired body up. There was no use doing that though. He sighs and readjusts himself on the bed, now sitting up. His blurry vision is now much clearer. He still sees Aubrey, twiddling her fingers.
"Welp, any ideas on what we should do?" Sunny asks Aubrey. She looks at him surprised.
"Wait, you're staying awake?? Or can you actually not fall back to sleep?" Sunny chuckles at the question.
"Trust me Aubbie, I could go back to sleep at any moment, but you woke me up so you could find something to wear you out again, so I'm obligated to help until you do fall back asleep."
Aubrey didn't know what it was, but she felt a hint of sleepy malice in what Sunny said. She looked at Sunny again, noticing the bags under his eyes. Maybe she shouldn't have woken him up…well, there wasn't a way out of this now. Aubrey hops off of Sunny's lap. She walks to Sunny and grabs his arm.
"C'mere, Sunny," She tells him.
"I know what we can do."
Sunny sighs and hops off of the bed. There wasn't much light in the Bedroom, only the night sky and its many stars illuminating some light. Aubrey grabs a blanket from the bed.
"Here, turn around for a second."
Sunny shrugs and turns around. Aubrey wraps the blanket around Sunny's neck, the blanket now looks like a cape.
"There you go!" Aubrey says happily. Sunny feels the fluffy blanket around his neck.
"...Why though?" He asks her. Aubrey shrugs, chuckling.
"It looks cute on you, Sunny. So so cute, trust me." Aubrey then grabs another blanket from the bed and wraps it around her neck.
"There! With these blankets wrapped around our necks, now known as Blanket Capes, I now call us, the Pajama Gang!" Sunny only chuckled at Aubrey's enthusiasm. Never before did he think that Aubrey would be as cheerful as she was when they were younger after the Hooligan fiasco, but some things never really change, do they?
"The Pajama Gang…I like it. Sounds nice," He says. Aubrey smiles at Sunny.
"I'm glad you like the name, SunBun." Aubrey walks to Sunny and places a kiss on his forehead, an audible "Mwah" after the kiss ends. Sunny blushes, the darkness of the Bedroom hiding it for the most part. Aubrey notices, however, smiling smugly at Sunny after seeing it.
"Well, now that we got the name down…let's wake up Basil, shall we?"
Sunny looks at Aubrey, appalled at the fact that she said, let alone thought of this idea.
"Aubrey, we can't just wake up Basil! You know how light of a sleeper he is, waking him up would be the meanest thing we could do to him aside from ruining the garden!"
"Oh come on Sunny!! Please? Three is better with two! If we're already awake and suffering, Basil might as well suffer with us."
"No! I refuse to wake up Basie!"
"Come on, SunBun!"
"No!"
"SUNNY, AUBREY, IF YOU DON'T BE QUIET RIGHT NOW, I AM GOING TO BREAK YOUR BONES."
The scared duo look to see Basil in the bed, looking the...tiniest bit peeved.
"My goodness, you two are loud! I can't sleep! You two know how light of a sleeper I am!"
Sunny and Aubrey look at Basil, embarrassed at their actions. Aubrey twiddles her fingers and Sunny rubs the back of his head.
"Sorry, Basil…" The two say in unison. Basil only sighs and smiles at the two.
"All is forgiven. Just be quieter from now on, okay? What are you two even doing awake anyways?"
"Aubrey woke up and couldn't fall back to sleep, so she woke me up so she could find some way to go back to sleep." Sunny explains.
"Apparently, she found a way. She just wanted to wake you up first."
Basil looks at Aubrey, a bit annoyed at her actions. Aubrey can feel the disappointment on her face.
"Really, Aubrey?"
"I know, I know. I'm sorry, Basil…" She apologizes.
"I promise I found something for the three of us to do though! Here, lemme help you out of bed."
Aubrey gets on the bed and grabs Basil's hands. With a sigh, he moves out of the bed with her, now seeing the blanket wrapped around her neck. He notices Sunny wearing a cape as well.
"Why'd you wrap that blanket around your neck?" Basil asks.
"Oh! I wrapped it around my neck for funsies," Aubrey replies.
"I call it a Blanket Cape. It's really comfy…I gave one to Sunny too." Basil looks at Sunny again, seeing the boy tugging on the blanket cape.
"He looks cute and fashionable in it, doesn't he?" Basil chuckles and nods.
"He does indeed." Sunny feels his blush flare up.
"Anyways," Aubrey starts.
"I thought we could go outside and do some Stargazing!"
"Stargazing?"
"Mmhmm! Just imagine. The warm air, the sweet night sky shining above us, nothing but us and the chirps of the crickets…it would be nice, wouldn't it?"
"It sounds nice…" Sunny says.
"It does," Basil chimes.
"Where did you get the idea, Aubrey?"
"To be honest…I'm not too sure." She replies. "All I know is that I feel like looking at the stars tonight, as cheesy as it sounds." Aubrey gets back on the bed and looks through the window. The stars shine brightly…
Aubrey hops off the bed again.
"So come on you two," She says, grabbing Sunny's hand with her left hand and Basil's with her right.
"Let's do some Stargazing. If y-you two are okay with it, is all." Sunny looks at Basil. The two smile at each other and nod.
"That'd be nice," Sunny says.
"Yeah! Let's go," Basil agrees. Aubrey smiles at the two.
"To the garden we go then." As Aubrey begins to walk out, Basil remembers something.
"W-wait a second." Basil lets go of Aubrey's hand and rushes back to the room. He grabs a blanket from the bed, as well as something from the wardrobe. He wraps the blanket around him and rushes back to the two.
"Here, Aubrey." Basil hands her the accessory, an excited squeal coming from her.
"My Bunny Headbow!" Aubrey puts on the cyan headbow with large rabbit ears. She only put the accessory on when she felt comfortable, and she surely felt comfortable with Sunny and Basil by her side. Aubrey releases a chuckle from her mouth.
"Thank you, Basil! I appreciate you." Basil smiles at Aubrey.
"Don't mention it, Aubrey," He tells her. Aubrey closes her eyes and plants a kiss onto Basil's lips. Opening her eyes and letting go of the kiss shows a very flustered Basil. Aubrey only chuckles and kisses Basil's nose, making his blush worsen.
"Cutie~."
Aubrey turns to Sunny, who's fiddling in place. She chuckles at Sunny's fiddling.
"Are you feeling left out, Sunny?" She asks him. Sunny embarrassingly nods.
"Why didn't you say anything then?" Before Sunny could answer, Aubrey closes her eyes and kisses Sunny's lips softly. She lets go of the kiss after a few moments, kissing Sunny's nose after, like she did Basil.
"There you go, SunBun," She tells him.
"Better?"
Sunny blushes and nods. Basil chuckles at his boyfriend.
"Good," Aubrey replies. She then grabs Sunny's hand with her left hand and Basil's with her right again. The three walk outside.
Aubrey was definitely right about the air being warm outdoors. The weather was calm, with a little bit of wind blowing. The three's bare feet walk on the grass before eventually sitting down next to the garden. Sunny looks up, looking at the stars. There were thousands of them in the sky. The way they glimmered...Sunny could see why Aubrey wanted to do this now.
"The stars look great tonight, huh?" Sunny turns to Aubrey, who is still looking up at the sky.
"Whenever I couldn't sleep back at my old house, I always tended to look at the stars. They gave me hope for whatever reason…"
Sunny and Basil listen to Aubrey, scooting a little closer to her as to listen in.
"Back then, I wished upon all of the stars, despite none of them being shooting stars at all. I guess I was just that desperate to get out of there…huh?"
Sunny and Basil now hug Aubrey. Aubrey only chuckles. She continues to speak.
"I always wished that my parents would stop fighting at first. Then those wishes went into hoping my mother got better."
Aubrey begins to sniffle.
"Those wishes eventually went to hoping I got out of there soon."
Aubrey doesn't realize it, but her eyes begin to drop tears. She puts her hand on her forehead.
"I'm…such an idiot. If I had gotten out sooner, I would've been able to comfort and be there for you two…"
Sunny lets go of his huglock and wipes the tears off of Aubrey's face. Aubrey sighs before hugging Sunny again.
"Sunny, I'm so sorry, I told myself I'd stop doing this…!"
Sunny silently comforts her. He rubs her back as she holds onto him as if for dear life. Many quiet "I know"s escape Sunny's mouth.
Suddenly, Basil appears, placing a sunflower on Aubrey's head. She notices. Aubrey stops hugging Sunny and looks at the sunflower. She smiles.
"Thank you, Basil." Basil rubs Aubrey's head.
"You're welcome, Aubrey," He replies.
"Please, stop talking yourself down. You don't have to apologize."
"We care about you a lot, Aubrey," Sunny chimes.
"You didn't do anything wrong."
Sunny and Basil hug Aubrey again. Aubrey smiles. She closes her eyes and continues to smile as tears roll down her face.
…
The three end up laying down in the grass. They all look at the stars, talking about them or whatever pops into their mind. Eventually, Aubrey notices how quiet the two were. She looks to see Basil wrapped in his blanket and Sunny using his Blanket Cape to cover himself. The two were both asleep. Aubrey smiles at the sleeping duo. She places a kiss on their foreheads before taking off her headbow before cuddling Sunny and Basil and falling asleep as well.
The three slept well that night.
[End The.]