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Sky was probably the lightest sleeper he knew. There wasn’t much that didn’t wake him up – the sound of a pin dropping, the tiniest change in temperature, or even a little gust of wind across his face from a window accidentally left open would do it. He needed the perfect conditions to even allow himself to fall asleep, and that wasn’t even the hard part.
It was probably the only way they weren’t perfect for each other. Prapai, the deepest sleeper Sky had ever met, could only be roused each night by his bladder. And what an active bladder he had. It was rare that either of them got a full night sleep; Sky because he was always waking up, and Prapai because he always needed to pee.
Of course, that meant that when Prapai needed to pee, Sky would also wake up too.
Sometimes he would manage to stay asleep until Prapai was crawling back into bed. On those nights Prapai would give him a kiss and then drift off before he could even wrap his arms back around Sky. That was another thing he was terribly jealous of: Prapai’s ability to fall asleep instantly. Sky needed white noise. Or red noise, or yellow noise, or any type of noise he could get. Complete silence was not something he could fall asleep in.
On the nights that Prapai noticed he was awake, adorable little eyes staring up at him just over the edge of the covers, he would take Sky to the bathroom with him.
“Hi, baby. Gotta go potty?”
Sky always shook his head, and Prapai always insisted he try.
“Mm, why don’t you come with Daddy? We can go together.”
Because Sky always listened to Prapai, he always reluctantly went along, no matter how sleepy he was. His feet were heavy and the lights were harsh against his tired eyes, but Prapai’s hand in his was enough for him to not fully regret tagging along. Because that’s all he was doing: tagging along. Sky did not have to go potty.
He waited while Prapai did his business, because even though Sky was the baby, Prapai’s bladder was the size of a baby’s, and he definitely could not hold it. Sometimes Sky’s own bladder didn’t like to let go, and Prapai had had a few close calls on the rare occasion he let Sky go first.
“Your turn,” Prapai told him when he finished.
“Too s’eepy,” Sky argued, hoping that Prapai would just take him back to bed. He was tired, the lights were bright, and he was already missing out on enough sleep, not counting the time it would take for him to fall back asleep.
“Yeah, yeah,” Prapai giggled sleepily, already bending slightly to undo Sky’s pants for him.
There wasn’t anything he could do to fight it, so Sky simply stood there while his daddy untied the drawstring on his sleep shorts for him, rubbing his eyes to show just how sleepy he was.
“Oh, I know. The sooner you pee the sooner we can get back to bed,” Prapai told him, which had Sky sitting down on the toilet in an instant.
Much to his dismay, Sky did indeed need to pee, even though he didn’t feel like he did. There wasn’t a whole lot, even less than Prapai despite Sky having a bladder twice the size of him, but he still peed, and that was enough to have Prapai smiling.
“My good boy,” he praised, making Sky blush.
“Bed?” Sky asked as Prapai helped him back into his shorts.
“Yes, we can go back to bed now.”
The big yawn that followed probably would have convinced Prapai that it was time for bed if it hadn’t been the middle of the night already, and if that weren’t enough, the way that Sky flopped onto the bed and shut his eyes definitely would have.
Prapai chuckled for the second time that night. “Are you going to get under the blankets, or are we sleeping on top?”
He already knew the answer. Sky couldn’t sleep without blankets – a big reason why they kept the air conditioner in their bedroom colder than the tundra.
Sky crawled under the blankets as soon as Prapai lifted them up for him, holding his arms out impatiently as Prapai climbed into bed next to him.
“Goodnight, baby.”
“Nini, Dada.”
Prapai was definitely asleep before him, but Sky couldn’t deny that it was much easier to fall asleep when he was in his daddy’s arms. And when he had an empty bladder.