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“Your hair’s so pretty!” Shiki cooed as she softly ran her fingers through it. “And soft!” She hugs him tighter. Thankfully she isn’t pulling on his hair so it feels nice.
“Glad you like my hair so much.” Joshua teases lightly. Neku shifts a bit in his lap and softly nuzzles and slowly opens his eyes. “Hello, there. Had a nice nap?”
“Yeah.” Neku responds contently.
“Welcome back, Neku. We missed you.” Shiki adds as she brushes Joshua’s hair. “Is this good?” She asks hesitantly. She worries a lot about if he’s hurt or not. It’s kind of nice.
“Yeah, it feels nice.” He answers contently.
“What’s going on?” Neku asks sleepily.
“Just brushing Joshua’s hair.” Shiki responded as she continues brushing his hair in smoothing motions.
“Hmm. That’s nice.” Neku says as he shifts a bit so his head rests on Joshua’s shoulder. As Shiki continues brushing his hair the comb catches on Neku’s hair as well. Of course it does. What do you expect when you’re leaning on someone’s shoulder.
“Neku.” Joshua says amused. It’s kind of funny given everything.
“What?” Neku asks tiredly. And of course Neku doesn’t care.
“Your hair’s stuck.” Joshua says simply and amused.
“Then stop combing if you have such a problem with it.” Neku says as he continues to rest on his shoulder not seeing a problem with his hair in his boyfriend’s comb.
“Umm Neku?” Shiki interrupts, “It’s kind of stuck. Both your hair and Joshua’s hair is in the comb.” The joys of when your boyfriend wants to take a nap on your shoulder but your girlfriend wants to come your hair.
“Really?” Neku asks confused.
“Yes, Neku so hold still hmm?” Joshua hums. Shiki starts to pulls locks of hair out of the brush.
“I can’t believe this. I can’t believe you let this happen.” Shiki says as she removes hair from the brush.
“What makes you think I let this happen dear?” Joshua asks amused. He seems content and happy at Shiki softly pulling locks of his hair out of the brush. He closes his eyes as he gets soft and gently head rubs from Neku as an apology of sorts.
“All done.” Shiki happily says and he peels his eyes open and there’s no hair left in the comb.
“Thanks.” Neku says simply as he curls into Joshua’s form and Joshua wraps an arm around him to hold him.
“Maybe we shouldn’t try to comb Joshua’s hair while Neku’s trying to sleep.” Shiki says as she puts down the comb and joins Neku.
“Perhaps.” Joshua says as he holds her and then falls into the bed. “Do try to sleep well.”
“We can try but no promises.” Neku sounds tiredly into his ear. But Joshua already knew that. He’s the one who has to try to help whenever nightmares do arise.
But hopefully they sleep well tonight. They deserve that much at least. And Joshua will make sure it happens.