Early in the Morning
Jerry woke up three times in the night. One time he was totally confused and kind of jammed up against the wall and he realized that he was in Sabrina’s bed because obviously she was lying there, asleep, so duh it was her bed. He must have fallen asleep after she asked him to stay and then now it was the middle of the night. He panicked because he had never told his dad so he quickly texted him that he was staying at Tim’s and sorry sorry sorry that he had forgot to tell him, but his dad was chill, way too chill actually, it made Jerry feel all guilty, but after that Jerry fell back asleep. Then about an hour later probably he woke up again, super cold and trying to figure out how to get some of the blanket without bothering Sabrina, but every time he practically twitched or anything she almost woke up, she was a super light sleeper or maybe not always, maybe him being there made her that way but he had to keep super still which actually helped him probably fall asleep again because usually he would have grabbed his phone or played his Xbox or something if he couldn’t fall asleep, but he just had to lie there on his back and pretty soon he was asleep again.
The third time he woke up was because Sabrina had gotten up. She went out but it was still the middle of the night so it was probably bathroom or something so he just tried to figure out how to get comfortable before she came back, this time under the covers thank God. When she came back she had put some kind of whitish pajamas on, he could hardly see but they were sort of glowy in the dark, and then she slid in next to him and she was quiet and he was quiet until she whispered, “Are you shivering?” And he whispered back, “Kinda, yeah, I was cold before but now it’s fine.”
They lay there on their sides, facing each other sort of but he couldn’t see too great, just mostly hear her breathing and sort of feel it on his face.
That went on for a while and he thought maybe she was asleep and then she whispered, “Jerry?”
He whispered, “Yeah?”
“Do you want to kiss me?”
Jerry said, “Yeah, I do,” and almost did, but then said, “But is it a good idea? I mean, you had kind of a weird night, I guess?”
“Yeah,” she admitted.
“And I don’t want to take advantage or anything,” Jerry whispered.
She moved her head a tiny bit, maybe nodding, he figured.
He tried to figure out if what he had said was mean to her somehow or the wrong thing to say or what. She was quiet for a while. He thought that maybe he had hurt feelings. Like basically a lot.
After a while she said, “Jerry?
“Yeah?”
“If I tell you that I’m OK would you want to kiss me?”
He didn’t think for long. “Yeah,” he said. “Yeah.”
She said, “I’m not OK, though.”
“Yeah,” he said.
“Kiss me anyway,” she said, but before he could say anything she was kissing him, super super lightly at first, like you could barely feel her lips, they were like barely there. After like three or four they stopped, breathing a little, and he could tell she was waiting for something.
He whispered, “I think you’re the most beautiful girl on the planet.”
She took a deep breath, like she hadn’t been expecting that or something? And then she whispered, “I think you’re the most amazingly nice and awesome guy on the planet.”
He whispered, “Cool,” but then she was kissing him again and this time it was like, woah, like deep kissing, and then she put her arm around him so he could tell he kind of had permission, possibly, to try to do other, like, stuff, so he put his hand on her shoulder and just kind of pet it like she was a dog for a while. And they were totally kissing, and then she made it super simple, she just sat up and took off her pajama top, and then pulled his T-shirt up so he knew to pull it off, and then everything started happening all over the place and it was like for real the best thing ever.
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