Warm For Once

8

You woke up, but you didn't open your eyes, you were too tired. But you felt something was different, you slowly realized that you were not in your bed. Trying to shift around, you found that your movements were constricted. The memories came flooding back, the nightmare, the tea, and now you were sleeping in between the couple that you had only known for a week or so.

You slowly opened your eyes see that Bo was the one who had his arms around you, he was holding you almost like a teddy bear. The couple was both still asleep, but light streamed through the windows, and birds chirped loudly outside. You guessed that today was going to be a lazy sort of day. 

You felt Bo stir behind you, he let out a small hum before burying his face in your hair, his beard tickled your face. You closed your eyes again and snuggled further into the mattress and sheets, everything felt so still. Lorene was awake, just like you, but not wanting to disturb the peace stayed quiet, she opened her eyes and took a peek at you, adorable, just as expected. Lorene smiled knowing that today was going to be an easy one.  

Bo, after a few minutes, finally woke. Bo sat up and looked down at you, he brushed your hair out of your face and checked to make sure everything was okay. He locked eyes with Lorene, the two lovers smiled at each other, both at how cute you were. How could someone hurt such a child? 

Bo hated to wake you up from such a peaceful sleep, but he knew that you couldn't stay in bed all day. He placed a hand on your shoulder and lightly shook you "Hey hon, it's time to get up" you whined a little, but other than that you didn't put up much of a fight. "C'mon, let's get some breakfast" Lorene got up from her spot on the bed and Bo followed suit, holding out a hand for you once he was standing. 

You put your hand in his and Bo lead you to the kitchen as you tiredly trudged next to him. Bo chuckled, you still had a blanket wrapped around you, though he didn't mind, the house could get pretty cold in the mornings and he found it funny. Although, once you were at the breakfast table he had to take it away, not wanting it to get stained. A shiver went up your spine once the blanket was taken off of you. 

"Alright" Lorene sat down placing some cereal, milk, and a few bowls with spoons down on the table "do you have anything you want to do today?" 

"Not really" you responded, still feeling like going back to bed. 

"That's okay, last night was pretty rough. Do you still not want to talk about that nightmare you had?" 

"Well- I guess I could try" you shifted in your seat as Bo sat down "It kinda started with me running from my dad and I don't know why. But like- the problem was that I couldn't actually run, I could try but I would be really slow, so instead of running I his in a cabinet. Then when I was hiding I heard my dad come in and start slamming open the cabinets, and then he opened mine and-" you trailed off, you wanted to complete the story, but it was hard to without tearing up "and he grabbed me by the shirt and that's when I woke up" your voice wobbled at the end. 

Bo scooted his chair closer to you and started to rub circles in your back, just like the night before "Hey, it's okay the dream's gone now. How about we just have a day off? We won't go anywhere" 

You nodded, which was really the only way you could reply. 

After breakfast, you sat on the living room couch and read one of the books that you had gotten yesterday. While you were relaxing Bo and Lorene sat in their own room, making private conversation.

"I can't fucking believe this their parents are fucking monsters" Bo paced around the room, running a hand through his hair "I fucking hate their parents and I've barely heard shit about them" 

"I know, but we've already done the most we can about them. What we need is to start focusing on her mental health more. Maybe we should get a therapist?" Lorene suggested. 

"Yeah, okay. Um- just lemme-" Bo pulled out his phone he knew a website that had pretty good recommendations "Okay" he handed the phone to Lorene. 

"This one could be good"