The Domino Effect (Chaennie)

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Jennie is barely able to get two hours of sleep before she's awoken again. She's not sure what wakes her at first as she sleepily swats away at the things disturbing her, but when the sensation on her face doesn't stop, she wearily opens one eye to look at what's bothering her.

What is actually a who, as Nik stands on Jennie's side of the bed, peering right down at her as one arm is clutching a white wolf plushie, and the other hand is relentlessly poking Jennie's cheeks, still not stopping after she opens her eyes.

"Nik?" She asks quietly, still unsure if she was dreaming or not.

Jennie attempts to raise one of her hands to rub her bleary eyes, but is restrained by another arm resting on top of her. It takes her a second to put the pieces together, considering how she normally sleeps alone, but she realizes that Rosie is pressed up right against her back, the blonde's arms tightly squeezing her as their legs are tangled together.

Jennie wants to turn around and look at her, but there seems to be a more pressing matter at hand.

"I gotta go potty." Nik whisper yells, a whine in his voice like he had been holding it in for too long.

"Ask one of your moms." Jennie answers groggily, already fully prepared to slink back into Rosie's body, and sleep for another eternity.

"I did!" He exclaims, his voice taking on an exasperated tone. "I asked mom first, but then she told me to ask mama, so I asked mama, but then she told me to ask mom!" He's bouncing up and down now, the urge to pee suddenly overwhelming. "Will you help me?" He asks, pleading.

Jennie knows she has to say yes, partly because she doesn't want him to pee on her hardwood, but the bed feels so comfortable right now. Jennie usually gets hot during the night, despite the cold weather, and usually she doesn't like cuddling that much because the extra body heat makes her clammy, but Rosie's skin is surprisingly cool. (Jennie knows that Rosie has a tendency to get cold easily.) They even each other out, Jennie finds. All of Jennie's excess body heat gets transferred to the other girl as Rosie greedily takes in the extra warmth.

They're good together.

Jennie breathes sucks in a deep inhale before slowly nodding. Jennie really tries her best to get out of the bed without waking Rosie, but it's practically impossible with the way they're intertwined together. It was like their legs formed an impossible knot, and Rosie's vice grip on her waist did nothing to help.

Not that she was complaining, but she really needed to get out.

Rosie stirs as Jennie attempts to remove the blonde's arms, while simultaneously trying to pull her legs away. Rosie lets out puff of air, sounding a lot like an angry huff as her brows furrow together at the disruption of her sleep.

As soon as Jennie is able to remove herself from Rosie's hold, she replaces herself with a pillow and grabs Nik's hand, pulling him to a different bathroom in the hallway because she didn't want to wake Rosie up with the sound of the flushing toilet in her en suite.

Nik practically drags her as they make the short walk, his hand insistently tugging on Jennie's arm. She smiles a bit when she sees that his hands can only wrap around three of her fingers, it's kind of cute.

As soon as they get to the bathroom door, Nik shoves his stuffed animal into Jennie's arms and bolts into the restroom as Jennie waits patiently outside.

Once Jennie hears the sound of a flushing toilet, Nik peeks his head out the crack of the door to ask Jennie to help wash his hands because he's too short.