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You wake up slowly, feeling more rested than you have in weeks, which is the first surprise. The bed at Green Valley is nothing like the comfort of your own, meaning that the quality of your sleep is suffering. However, the lack of other responsibilities means that you can increase the quantity of to make up for the lack of quality.
As your brain slowly kicks into gear, you notice how warm it is in your bed and how close to the edge of it you are. You know you tend to drift in your sleep but you’re usually not that close to falling off the bed. As you try to shake the fog of slumber, you notice a skinny arm wrapped around your waist and a gentle, rhythmic puffing in your ear. You freeze, slowly removing the arm and turning around the face the owner.
When you clock the familiar face, you sigh in relief. It’s not a stranger. It’s your new friend Klaus. Although, how he made it into your room baffles you. You stare at his peacefully sleeping face, before your eyes wander down to his bare chest. You roll out of the bed in surprise, landing with a thump on the floor. This seems to rouse him from his slumber and you hear an unintelligible murmur and see an arm reaching out into the space you just vacated, searching for your presence.
“WHY ARE YOU NAKED IN MY BED KLAUS!” you whisper shout, not wanting to attract the attention of the orderlies this early in the morning, “MORE IMPORTANTLY HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE!”
He sleepily blinks his eyes open, making grabby hands as he tries to get you to get back into the bed. “I’m colddddd” he whines, wrapping the blankets around himself like a burritto, “Come backkk”
“Not until you tell me how you got in!! They lock our doors from the outside! How the fuck did you get out of your room???”
He mumbles a response, shoving his face into one of your pillows. You reach over and shake his shoulder, “What was that???”
He sighs, exasperated, “I picked the lock, they need to invest in better ones if they want to actually keep me inside my room. Now come back, ‘s too early.”
You get ready to crawl back into bed before you remember the reason you got up in the first place, and head to the bathroom to relieve yourself. Halfway there, you stop in your tracks and turn around.
“Also why the fuck are you naked? That’s not cool my dude.”
Klaus responds by lifting the blanket quickly to show you that he has boxers on before snuggling back into them and closing his eyes. You throw a shirt at him from your dresser.
“If you’re going to sleep in here you better put this on.” you grumble at him.
He makes a sound of unhappiness but grudgingly pulls the shirt over his head somehow without sitting up.
You roll your eyes and shut the bathroom door behind you. You don’t know what’s going to happen if the staff find him in here, but you figure that’s not something you need to worry about at the moment.
You slip back into your bed, feeling comforted by the warm presence next to you. When you shut your eyes, sleep comes much easier than it has in weeks.
THE END